DC statehood bill has record number of cosponsers

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has introduced a bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state.  She introduced the bill with 151 original cosponsors, a new record, up from 116 lastd session.

Your editor wrote the first article explaining how DC could become a state without a constitutional amendment and was a co-founder of the DC statehood movement.