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.

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.

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 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 ...

Advocates fighting for Washington, DC, to become the 51st state are more hopeful than ever that they’ll achieve statehood with Joe Biden in the White House and Democrats now controlling both ...

While the debate over statehood has centered largely on how it would affect the political composition of Congress (92 percent of DC voters selected Biden in 2020), the district’s lack of ...

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 ...

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 ...