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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time since the establishment of the District of Columbia 230 years ago, the House of Representatives voted to declare the city to be the nation’s 51st state, a legislative ...