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Could DC, Puerto Rico become the next US states? Here s what Congress is considering Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON Congress will hold hearings on bills that would extend statehood to the nation s capital and a U.S. territory.
The push to recognize Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico as states with equal representation in government is decades old. A bill admitting the District as a state passed the House in the last Congress but was not heard in the Senate.
Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla., last month introduced legislation for Puerto Rico statehood, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Residents of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, are U.S. citizens but voters there cannot vote for president and are not represented by a voting member of Congress.
Parents of Black man killed by police react to chief calling shooting accidental
Parents of Duante Wright break silence after fatal shooting by police
Replay Video UP NEXT The parents of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by a white police officer in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday, said they can t accept the notion that their son s killing was a mistake. I lost my son, he s never coming back, Daunte Wright s father, Aubrey Wright, told ABC News Robin Roberts in an exclusive interview Tuesday on Good Morning America. Daunte Wright was driving in Brooklyn Center, about 10 miles northwest of Minneapolis, when he was stopped by police on Sunday afternoon. The officers initially pulled him over for an expired registration tag on his car but determined during the traffic stop that he had an outstanding gross misdemeanor warrant, according to Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon.