{"id":571946,"date":"2021-06-23T15:07:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571946"},"modified":"2021-06-23T15:07:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:07:52","slug":"politicians-argue-for-and-against-washington-d-c-statehood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politicians-argue-for-and-against-washington-d-c-statehood\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians argue for and against Washington D.C. statehood"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fpoliticians-argue-for-and-against-washington-d-c-statehood%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=571946&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_2433862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2433862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser is photographed. (AP Photo\/Patrick Semansky)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:02 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, June 23, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on the proposal to make Washington, D.C. a state. On Tuesday, the city\u2019s Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser offered her view as to why the D.C. Statehood Bill, which has already passed in the House, should move forward.<\/p>\n<p>Bowser argued D.C. residents lack representation as they are not given senators or congressmen because D.C. isn\u2019t a state.<\/p>\n<p>She went on to explain, \u201cD.C.\u2019s current status is due to generations of inactivity by lawmakers including the founding fathers themselves, failing to address the contradiction that D.C. residents of the U.S. capital are treated as second class citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) offered an argument which disproved her point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the design in the Constitution to say this is uniquely so that the federal government does not exist under the authority of any state or try to interact with the state,\u201d he explained. \u201c\u2026To make sure that constitutionally there would always be a region that is there, that was established so the federal government didn\u2019t have to worry about what\u2019s state, what\u2019s federal.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Making Washington, DC a state is unconstitutional. The Founders designed the Nation\u2019s Capital very intentionally not to be under the authority of any one state. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uky1fsBnUo\">pic.twitter.com\/uky1fsBnUo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. James Lankford (@SenatorLankford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorLankford\/status\/1407707057902477312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives power to the federal government to form a district free from state authority. Federalist No. 43, penned by Founding Father James Madison, also warns of the \u201cimputation of awe or influence\u201d at risk if America was to put its capital city within a state. In other words, putting the nation\u2019s capital in a state would result in the federal government being subjected to the powers of that state\u2019s government or vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people live in Maryland, or in Virginia, or in West Virginia and drive in to be able to be here from longer distances, but that\u2019s a volitional choice,\u201d Lankford expressed. \u201cNo one\u2019s compelled to actually be here knowing that\u2019s been the situation for more than 200 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although, a lack of representation isn\u2019t without solutions. In 1846, D.C. ceded control of the residential suburbs Arlington and Alexandria back to Virginia, which had provided the land in the first place. This is one alternative solution to give residents representation without compromising the seat of American power.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wash-state-lawmakers-mull-possible-election-audit\/\">Wash. State Lawmakers Mull Possible Election Audit<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser is photographed. 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