



D.C. residents are denied representation.
Washington, D.C. is large enough to be a state. DC has 702,000 residents, more than Vermont and Wyoming and comparable with other states including Delaware, Alaska, and several others.
Summary: This bill provides for admission into the United States of the state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, composed of most of the territory of the District of Columbia. The commonwealth shall be admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the other states.
The D.C. Statehood bill has held a referendum already, with 86% in support. The bill has passed the House, 232-180. The two remaining steps are senate passage and for the president to sign it. This is the process by which all states have been admitted to the union, including Maine. Learn more here.
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