DC statehood to get its first Capitol hearing in more than two decades

Washington Post - The campaign to make the District of Columbia into the nation’s 51st state will get its first hearing on Capitol Hill in more than two decades. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), will hear testimony next Monday, Sept. 15, on the New Columbia Admission Act of 2013. The bill would shrink the federal district to a small area surrounding the White House and Capitol and admit the remainder of the District of Columbia as the 51st state.

The DC statehood movement began with an article in the DC Gazette, forerunner of the Progressive Review, in 1970.