‘We Have Never Been Closer’: House Holds Hearing On Bill For D.C. Statehood | NBC News NOW

1. 51 percent of residents in D.C. are POC… You can't possibly give them the vote and representation – that would be too… American

2. DC will never become a State, before that ever happens they'll just return DC back to Maryland. Saves money, plus everyone gets to have representation and vote.

3. Comer nothing but blame games
   I dont see him doing anything better but crying like a 👶
   Democrats Democrats they did it!
   This guy has no business working for We the People

4. There’s a reason we voted massively for the Democratic Party. If they don’t make DC a state, they’ll forget my vote come 2022 and 24 period!

5. Denying D.C. State for the purpose of it being to democratic is so stupid every U.S. Territory should be granted statehood no matter their political views, NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

6. I hope that DC does become a statehood and for the republicans I hope they all go down for all the evils that they have done to the country

7. It would be one thing to take an oath of office to uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States. It is entirely another matter to bastardize the Constitution to change the Constitution to ignore the Constitution like the Democrats are doing.

8. Yeah why don't we continue to step all over the constitution remove whatever is inconvenient for the DemonRats. Just like they do all the time. When ita convenient they swore by the constitution when it's not convenient it's an outdated document. The devil is a liar and those who agree are being tricked by these forked tongue DemonRats. This is coming from a life long democrat that woke up from the matrix.

9. china won without firing a shot.

10. Demoncrat frauds have no place in America.

11. D.C. was created to be non-political.
    WTF is the question here?
    Fix the "issues," but don't destroy 😤 the reason D.C. was created, nimrods.

12. Yeah I’m not concerned about “tradition” of a broken system designed by slave owners. Grant them statehood immediately!

13. We have never been closer to becoming a communist cesspool.

14. leftest power grab !!

15. 😂

16. The Founding Fathers purposely did not want the Capital to be a State! That way they would have to neutral to other State Issues! DC Has been a Country of it's own and should continue to do so. If the people of DC are allowed to vote and abide by the same laws that the rest of America do, then they do have indirect representation in Congress! Considering the majority of those in Congress live there, all the Leftist want is more power of the Country they are supposed to be protecting! Which they are not doing. Instead they are using their current power to destroy America and sell it to the NWO!

17. Would she be advocating for DC statehood if it were populated by white conservatives?

18. why are the citizen paying taxes if they're not being represented?
    why is DC so populated?
    Also, if add 2 more seats for Democrats, they are still under represented, in terms of the US population.

19. DC should be a state, 700k residents have no representation in congress and pay taxes, lots of tax. Republicans will make excuses to denied statehood because majority of people are minorities and historially democrats. Not a valid reason to say no.

20. DC requires a constitutional amendment process to become a state. But hey pass it on a simple vote by congress and wait it out for years as the court cases are resolved. I doubt the SCOTUS will view changing the status of DC to a state on a simple vote with the same enthusiasm.

21. Give DC statehood Now!

22. we may have never been closer before, but we still aren't close. the only way that D.C. can get statehood is if the filibuster is nuked.

23. If republicans had the ability to remove statehood they would and California would be their first pick

24. Why does it matter how they vote? Will not any new state added to the Union be favorable to one political ideology?

25. Message Me: (Eight-Five-Six) (Three-Four-Nine) (Four-One-Nine-Seven)

26. D.C. District of China

27. Congratulations, Biden's Voting Access Bill will ensure republicans cannot create vote suppression.
    
    Teasing and laughing at MAGATs and their voting suppression during 2020 was funny.
    
    Now that it is 2021, teasing and laughing at MAGATs feels like laughing at the disabled.

28. Washington DC obviously needs to become a state.

29. What? Mymb look ebu.ble

30. I don’t understand why this is unconstitutional? Many other nations have their capital city as a sovereign district with equal representation to other districts.

    While there are at it, make Puerto Rico and all other U.S. territories and holdings in the Caribbean one state to represent all of them too. As well as all other territories( colonies) to a form of statehood.

31. If DC becomes state then is there going to be new usa 🇺🇸. It's going to be 51 stars. What about Puerto Rico? I heard they want to make that 52 state? Then how they gonna put 1 star or 2 stars in the flag??? Cuz right now it's equal. After making dc state or Puerto Rico then there is going to be one more line with 1 or 2 stars.

32. NOT TO BE! PERIOD!!!!

33. If DC is granted statehood the new name for the nfl football team should be called the Washington RedStripes named after the DC state flag. Hail To The RedStripes!

34. Investing in crypto is the only Big change of making money

35. Mr. Comer put your mask on. hahaha.

36. This is AGAINST the Constitution.

37. He forgot the small population of Montana, North and South dakota etc. Pay your taxes and you should get your vote.

38. old white men… seeing ghosts!

39. Its 2021 and the Republicans are still saying the same old thing…we can't change anything

40. The white representative use the word Democratic implying black people.

41. Unconstitutional by any reading of the literature. But the Dems make it sound like the most reasonable thing in the world. It isn't.

42. They're probably all welfare recipients and that's why they vote Democrat. A state that lives off federal funds. How does that contribute to the country?

43. 90% Democrat or 55% non white population? That's the answer of any Republican when a black or hispanic district or territory wants to be brought into the union! That's the only reason that Washington DC and Puerto Rico aren't a state, because they're heavier towards the democratic side

44. @Alphonse Appiah I have family in MD and VA, I think that you cannot call neutral ground as the surrounding area boarders two states that is the district. Why don't we allocate a more respective approximate to vote in the congress, that is fair, think of Guam and Puerto Rico that are Americans that fight to be represented and have done so for decades. We are part of America stop denying our place and contributions

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