The House passed a bill last year to make the District of Columbia the 51
st state and another floor vote next week is expected to send the measure to the Senate for the second time.
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser stands on the rooftop of the Hay Adams Hotel near the White House on June 5, 2020. (Executive Office of the Mayor/Khalid Naji-Allah via AP)
WASHINGTON (CN) A House committee on Wednesday advanced a bill granting statehood to Washington, D.C., during a hearing filled with the same partisan division that encompassed debate on the measure last year.
The issue has smoldered for many years but was rekindled in 2016, when 83% of residents in the nation’s capital voted for a referendum to petition Congress for statehood, alongside District Council approval to draft a state constitution and draw new boundaries.
I am not generally a fan of futility, which is why I was sceptical about the wisdom of congressional Democrats pursuing a second impeachment and post-presidential conviction of Donald Trump.
The ending of this unprecedented exercise was written before it even began: Once again, Trump would be acquitted by the Senate, where fewer than the requisite 67 would vote to convict him. And once again, it would be safe to predict that the 45th president will claim this is some sort of exoneration.
It seemed smarter, and politically safer, to punish Trump some other way – perhaps with a censure, which would require only a majority.
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Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin and California Democrat Jared Huffman have teamed up to urge Joe Biden to remove God from America in a 28-page document proposed by the Secular Democrats of America PAC, a report says.
Raskin and Huffman, who both chair the Congressional Freethought Caucus, have presented the document to Biden last November 30 in an effort to rollback what former President Donald Trump has done that is presenting America as a Christian nation, Religion News reported The Biden Administration should quickly debunk the right-wing myth that personal free exercise of religion is a license to discriminate against other people in the provision of services in government and the marketplace, Raskin told Religious News.