Carper Introduces D.C. Statehood Bill in the U.S. Senate

James Wright WI Staff Writer

U.S. Sen. Tom Carper, a Democrat from Delaware, has introduced a bill—The Washington, D.C. Admission Act-- that would allow the District of Columbia to become the 51 st state in the nation.

Carper made his announcement on Jan. 24 with his colleague Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland), D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) on Capitol Hill. The senator said the time has come for District residents to be recognized as full citizens by its federal government.

“We have been taught in school that when our founders built a new nation, they cried ‘no taxation without representation’—a slogan that