The House of Representatives voted Thursday to give statehood to Washington, DC, in a narrow party-line vote of 216-208. In a speech on the House floor, Rockland Congressman Mondaire Jones blasted the bill’s opponents as racists…
That audio courtesy of C-SPAN. The bill faces a tough fight in the Senate where it needs at least 60 votes to pass. 700,000 people live in Washington, DC, without congressional representation, that’s a greater population than both Vermont and Wyoming, and they both have two senators and a member of Congress.