An update on D.C. Statehood for Flag Day 2023

Happy Flag Day! As I've done for the past four years, I'm observing the holiday by examining the state of D.C. statehood. People are still trying to make it happen, as WUSA9 reported Delaware Democrat introducing DC statehood bill in Senate in January of this year.

Senator Tom Carper announced he's introducing a bill to grant statehood to the nation's capital.

The circumstances are even less favorable than during the previous two sessions of Congress, when Democrats controlled the House and D.C. Statehood passed that chamber only to be filibustered in the Senate. Still, as Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton pointed out, that doesn't make the effort impossible or less worthy.

In fact, Democrats in the House are advocating for the cause, as two videos from Forbes Breaking News show, beginning with Speaker Emerita Pelosi Pushes For D.C. Statehood In Passionate Defense Of Washington, D.C.

On Wednesday, Speaker Emerita Pelosi opposed a resolution condemning the D.C. City Council's criminal justice reforms.

That was uploaded on April 23, 2023. More recently, Forbes Breaking News uploaded Jamie Raskin Pushes For DC Statehood: ‘Congress Has The Authority’ on June 10, 2023.

On Wednesday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) advocated for Washington DC statehood during a House Administration and Oversight Joint Committee hearing.

Good point about Congress changing the boundaries of the District of Columbia before. If it can do it once, it can do it again.

I conclude with a clip of Raskin being interviewed by Ali Velshi on MSNBC last December, Raskin Urges Puerto Rico, D.C. Statehood To ‘Grow Democracy’ In Wake Of Jan. 6.

“We’ve got to keep democracy growing, otherwise we’re constantly going to be lapsing back into these authoritarianism impulses that Donald Trump and his Party have unleashed upon us,” says Rep. Jamie Raskin on giving statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. as an "offensive" response to Jan. 6.

Well said, Congressman.  That's both a reason I agree with and a good foreshadowing for a related topic, Puerto Rican statehood, on Piña Colada Day next month. Stay tuned.