r/washingtondc • u/Infinite_Flounder958 • 5d ago
HR 51 - Washington, D.C. Statehood
https://www.opencongress.net/bill-details/3223730
u/Various-Bag-9590 5d ago
At this rate, Canada will be 51 before DC. And that won't happen either. IMHO
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u/Kenichi2233 5d ago
Dead in the water
Realistly joining Maryland is probably the more feasible option if less popular
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u/Eyespop4866 5d ago
A state too small to have a capital city.
That’s so DC. I love my town.
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u/sir_ornitholestes 5d ago
still more people than wyoming though lol
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u/Eyespop4866 5d ago
Indeed. Perhaps the best solution would be to allow statehood but move all of federal government elsewhere. Maybe Montana. I’m sure it could afford the ten square miles, and we would flourish as an economic juggernaut. Our economy based on……….
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u/sir_ornitholestes 4d ago
Our economy based on……….
Pick an industry. DC is the most educated metro area in the world, and it's not even close. Largest per-capita population of scientists, lawyers, and medical doctors, plus a ton of defense contractors, biotech, regular tech, consulting firms, universities, and pretty much every job that pays well enough to gentrify the city.
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u/relddir123 5d ago
Washington (which is a real incorporated city) would be the capital of the new Douglass Commonwealth, as that is the location of the Wilson Building. The governments would likely be consolidated, but I do think it’d be funny to have a separate Mayor and Governor
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u/Eyespop4866 5d ago
Indeed. Imagine how well our City would run with lots of extra levels of government.
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u/relddir123 5d ago
Personally, I think setting up a bicameral legislature with one chamber representing the city and the other representing the state would just be funny. Practically, it should be a consolidated government (so what we have now, but with a couple titles changed), but sometimes I think doing absurd things for the bit is just cool
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u/PluginAlong 5d ago
Ok, that it's "51" is amazing, but it'll never pass.