and there you have it.......H.R. 51 has passed the house....

[a kennedy]

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Potential DC Statehood baby....... and not one damn repub voted for it as usual. (Correction to Bill number.)

[StClone]

1. WHHOOOOT! Puerto Rico what you say?

[a kennedy]

2. Not sure when that vote gets taken......hope soon. eom

[StClone]

4. There are competing bills which are problematic for PR becoming 51st.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-26/rival-puerto-rico-bills-dim-democratic-hopes-of-a-51st-state

[LonePirate]

3. The bill is H.R. 51 (not 1 which is the elections reform bill).

[StClone]

5. Yes thanks!

[a kennedy]

12. Yup, sorry, and thanks.

[soldierant]

29. Wow! Is that the perfect number for it or what!

[FakeNoose]

6. OK here we go

Now it's up to the Senate to make this happen.

[GPV]

7. Do you think it will?

[FakeNoose]

8. I'm hoping they will, but it's not realistic right now

[GPV]

9. Yeh. I'm like that too.

[Drunken Irishman]

10. Sadly, no. It's DOA in the senate since they'll need enough votes to overcome a filibuster.

[LiberalArkie]

11. Make them talk for days on end.

[Drunken Irishman]

13. Until the filibuster rules are changed, that's not going to happen.

And Manchin seems to be against changing the rules.

[WarGamer]

14. HR51 is dead Bill walking...

I don't even believe all 50 DEMS will vote for it. Not to mention the filibuster.

[BobTheSubgenius]

15. I very reluctantly agree.

[IronLionZion]

16. I wish we had more dems in the Senate nt

[soldierant]

30. How many insurrectionist Senators would have to be locked up at the same time

for us to get past a filibiuster, even for a day or two?

There are a few things we'd have to jump on, like the filibuster itself, and HR1, and HR51 also.

Could someone ask Merrick Garland about this?

[Celerity]

32. It doesn' work that way, you need 60 votes for cloture, independent of how many Senators are on the

floor at one time.

One of the reforms we could have done is 41 votes need to sustain a filibuster, but Manchin and Sinema shot that down.

[soldierant]

36. Oh, what a pity. Thanks for the info.

[Celerity]

37. yw

[progressoid]

17. If this did pass the Senate,

it would be hilarious to watch all the flag humpers throw hissy fits about flying a flag with 51 stars.

[WarGamer]

18. Don't forget SCOTUS

HR51 would be tied up for years...

But it stands 0 chance of becoming law

[Celerity]

33. we can ease their whingeing by rejoining North and South Dakota back to just Dakota.

The Rethugs in the 19th century split the Dakota territory into 2 separate States to get 2 extra Senators and an extra House Rep.

[PurgedVoter]

19. Imagine that you are a resident of Washington D.C.

Now imagine that you are likely to be able to make the day a little bit more difficult for someone who didn't think you should have the same rights as the majority of Americans.

Now imagine that you are a Republican. Now take a shower because you have to feel filthy after imagining you were a Republican.

[yaesu]

20. Area must not exceed a 10 square mile area within a state so this is totally constitutional

if they just include the government building areas of DC but not sure how much of the residential area can be included.

[George II]

21. I wonder why two Democrats didn't vote for it (they were "NV")?

[a kennedy]

22. Dang....didn't see that......ya, wonder which two didn't vote. eom

[George II]

23. The full roll call vote is here:

https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2021/roll132.xml

[Celerity]

34. that is really strange as they both have been two of the loudest advocates for DC statehood since

they first were elected and both were original co-sponsors of the bill.

They both voted on Roll Call 131 (On Motion to Recommit, and voted Nay, along with all the Dems expect for Cleaver, Murphy (FL) and Vargas, all 3 of whom were not voting as well)

https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2021/roll131.xml

I would love to know what happened. Google has failed me so far. Perhaps they were out of the chamber?

[littlemissmartypants]

24. Here you go. . .

Ocasio-Cortez
Tlaib

[NurseJackie]

25. Seriously? ... Lord.

[a kennedy]

26. Damn......what's up with that??

[appleannie1]

27. No Republican Senators will vote for that. It would mean they are even more in the minority.

[Polybius]

31. We might have to offer them a deal

We can compromise this.

[mysteryowl]

28. It seems so easy to pass bills in the house.

If only we had a couple more democratic senators in the senate, we would be mopping up!

[SunSeeker]

35. Love the bill number!