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.

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.

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 ...

A previous version of this article incorrectly said the Senate has never held a hearing on a D.C. statehood bill. A Senate committee did so in 2014. It also said then-Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D ...

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 morning, members of the House of Representatives debated DC Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton's bill for DC statehood. A number of the arguments against statehood from the right seemed, well, less than ...

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 ...

Progressive Democrats outside the District of Columbia have become the newest foot soldiers in the city’s fight for statehood, excited by the notion that if the District became the 51st state ...