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Calls for DC statehood grow after riot at US Capitol. How could it become reality? Bailey Aldridge, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Jan. 7 The Wednesday attack at the U.S. Capitol has renewed calls for Washington, D.C., to become a state.
A mob in support of President Donald Trump who has continued to tout false claims that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent stormed the Capitol as Congress convened to certify President-elect Joe Biden s victory in the Electoral College vote.
Rioters scaled walls, smashed windows, laid siege on the U.S. Senate chamber and reached the doors of the House of Representatives chamber as Americans watched scenes unlike anything seen in the United States in centuries unfold on Capitol Hill.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser
(Washington, DC) Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser released the following statement after Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced her DC statehood bill (H.R. 51) with a record number of original cosponsors (202) on the first day of the 117th Congress.
“We are grateful to Congresswoman Norton for her steadfast leadership in continuing to grow support for H.R. 51 and ensuring statehood remains a top priority for the Congress. 2020 was a historic year in our fight to become the 51st state with the first-ever House passage of a statehood bill. Now, we carry that momentum into 2021 with renewed hope and a president who knows our struggle and supports our cause.