{"id":441949,"date":"2021-04-22T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=441949"},"modified":"2021-04-22T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:21:13","slug":"house-to-vote-on-d-c-statehood-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-to-vote-on-d-c-statehood-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"House to vote on D.C. statehood bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-to-vote-on-d-c-statehood-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=441949&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2401701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2401701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this April 21, 2021, photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joins Del. Eleanor Holmes-Norton, D-D.C., left, at a news conference ahead of the House vote on H.R. 51, the Washington, DC Admission Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Proponents of statehood for Washington, D.C., face a milestone moment in their decades-long movement to reshape the American political map. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 8:09 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, April 22, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A bill seeking to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state is slated for a House vote. The Democrat-led proposal will head to the floor on Thursday in a move House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has claimed will \u201creaffirm the truth that all deserve a voice in our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives have long pushed against the granting of statehood to D.C. with many agreeing it\u2019s nothing more than an attempt by the other side to get two more Democrat senators. A nearly identical bill passed the Democrat-controlled House last year, but ultimately failed in the then Republican-controlled Senate.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G7WV8Ez-oSk\">press conference<\/a> last year regarding the identical bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) expressed his outrage of the Democrat\u2019s attempt to shift the balance in the Senate by adding two more seats for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would empower the most radical agenda in modern American politics,\u201d he stated.\u201dThis is not about enfranchising people, this is about expanding the Senate map to accommodate the most radical agenda that I\u2019ve ever seen since I\u2019ve been up here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats claim D.C. statehood is a \u201cfight for racial justice\u201d with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser testifying in last months hearing on the legislation<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe simple fact is denying American citizens a vote in the body that taxes them goes against the founding principles of this great nation,\u201d said the mayor. \u201cThe disenfranchisement of Washingtonians is one of the remaining glaring civil rights and voting rights issues of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, GOP senators have continued to push back against the idea while characterizing it as nothing more than a political power grab. The ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, congressman James Comer (R-Ky.), said this is Democrats first step toward enacting large-scale re-structuring of U.S. government to fit a left-wing agenda.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What&#8217;s more important to the Democrats than power?<\/p>\n<p>The answer, nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Their push for D.C Statehood is confirmation that they have zero interest in respecting the institutions of our Constitutional Republic and only care about pushing their radical agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Stop the madness.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Congressman Byron Donalds (@RepDonaldsPress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDonaldsPress\/status\/1385239416927662086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This also comes as 22 Republican attorneys general sent a letter to Joe Biden and congressional leaders arguing the proposed legislation is unconstitutional and bad policy. Additionally, they warned the move would create an uneven balance of power and effectively turn Washington, D.C. into a \u201csuper state\u201d that can overrule the democratic will of other states.<\/p>\n<p>If the statehood bill, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/51\">H.R.51<\/a>, passes in the Democrat-controlled House then it surely faces a long-shot bid to overcome Republican opposition in the narrowly divided Senate.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/study-msm-coverage-heavily-slanted-in-bidens-favor\/\"> Study: MSM coverage heavily slanted in Biden\u2019s favor<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this April 21, 2021, photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joins Del. 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