WASHINGTON — The Washington, DC Admission Act (H.R. 51) would give Washington, D.C., statehood — something residents and leaders in the nation's capital have been requesting for decades.

Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser speaks next to Army veteran Bernie Siler and DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) at a rally in support of DC statehood on September 16, 2019.

WASHINGTON – Legislation under consideration in the House of Representatives could make Washington, D.C., the 51st state. The bill, aptly named "H.R. 51," was debated Thursday morning before the ...

This November, residents of Washington, DC, will vote on whether the District should become the 51st state. The initiative is very likely to pass, given that statehood polls very well in DC. But ...

“DC voters have already said loud and clear that we do not want retrocession, we want statehood,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said in 2019. She has repeatedly rejected this idea.

There are numerous principled reasons to oppose DC statehood. But really, no arguments are more applicable than the ones offered by the Founders, who created a federal district for the distinct pur… ...

When Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser sat in a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Monday to discuss H.R. 51, a Democratic-backed bill that would grant statehood to the District ...

This summer, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 51, a bill that would make D.C. the country’s 51st state. Once a provincial cause, statehood for the District has taken on vast significance in ...

The Congressional debate ahead of Friday’s vote on DC statehood featured the standard cavalcade of idiocies from statehood opponents.. There was the old argument about population size. Alabama’s Mo ...

To protect the District of Columbia, it might be necessary to eliminate the District of Columbia — and merge it into the neighboring state of Maryland. It’s an idea that many people think ...

Trump has said almost nothing about DC statehood since taking office. In 2015, Trump said as a presidential candidate, “I would like to do whatever is good for the District of Columbia because I ...