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By Emma Riley | January 28, 2021 | 4:45pm EST (Getty Images) (CNS News) -- On Wednesday, Jan. 27, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) announced that he had introduced a bill to make the District of Columbia a state. In the U.S. Constitution, the District is described as the “Seat of the Gov­ernment of the United States.”  “For years, I have fought alongside @EleanorNorton and @MayorBowser to make #DCStatehood a reality and to give the over 700,000 D.C. reside...

Democrats are pushing to make Washington, DC the 51st state. Supporters say it's necessary and the right thing to do. Critics fear it would upset the neutral environment the framers set up for the seat of the federal government.  

CBNNews.com In Wake of Capitol Hill Violence, Mayor Bowser Makes New Push for Biden Admin to Make DC a State 01-08-2021 Hoping to capitalize on Wednesdays violent break-in at the US Capitol, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser wasted no time Thursday in pushing once again for statehood for the District of Columbia. Bowser blamed her inability to call up the National Guard as one reason radicals were able to breach the Capitol. That power constitutionally is under the Executive Branch of the federal governme...

Obvious ways, over what happened with monica lewinsky. >> maybe this will get it off the page, maybe this will -- what do you think the motivation was? >> well, in his case, he thought if he just came forward, yes, i did have a relationship, at the very beginning of that scandal, the public would not have been able to tolerate it and the whole thing might have burned down. but if we can drag it out -- >> buy time. >> slowly, people were repaired to make a judgment about this. and the literal tru...

>> when you look at it, okay, criminalize sex and here we go. >> and i think what -- bill clinton was basically saying to ken starr and all the people who were pursuing him back then, like, come on, give me a break, you really want to pursue this? and thats exactly -- and the answer back then was, yes, we do, because we think theres something important involved, and now kavanaugh is the one saying, come on, youre going to look at my history, 36 years ago. is that relevant? yes, we think it is. a...

Welcome back. the visit lee yol in the fight over brett kavanaughs supreme court nomination isnt just about the allegations against him. its about a lot of things, and in many ways, its about the tribalism in our politics of today, and with everyone in their corners, how far apart we are from one another is stark. dr. christine blasey fords defenders cant understand why republicans would stand behind somebody accused of sexual assault. and kavanaughs supporters cant understand how something that...

Brett kavanaugh wont solve americas deeper supreme court problems. so, this is what im trying to get at. ill joined now by john harris and roger pilon. and again, with you, john, talking about the specific versus the larger culture war that you want to go on, you really go back between kavanaugh and ken starr and the clinton and the sort of -- and the fact that its a mirror image argument that the clinton defenders of 98 are making to kavanaugh defenders of 18. >> well, the common theme is, in b...

Getting caned on the senate floor. this is part of -- i think american story, right in theres violent past. >> youre trying to sell john meachums book quite well. >> sure, but the only thing that i think is different in this climate is that weve commercialized that kind of dissent. you can sell books off it, you can get ratings off it. you can raise money off it. the commercialization of extremism is new. >> that is a great thing to stop this segment on. thats a great point for people to think a...

to lower health care costs. then a discussions previewing cases the supreme court will hear in the new term. its followed by remarks from paul on the last supreme court term. tomorrows "washington journal" senator tom harkin efforts to avoid the fiscal cliff. the accusations that the president is engaged in so-called war and a recent washington monthly article profoils the consumer protection bureau. we talk to washington monthly editor in chief. washington journal begins live at 7:0...

roosevelts call to general motors president and shipbuilder henry kaiser to lead the private sector positions and lead the u.s. war protection effort during world war ii. dubbed the dollar a year men, they transformed the u.s. militarys aircraft ammunitions productions. this is one hour and ten minutes. >> good evening and with the american enterprise institute and a director of the national research initiative which is a foundation or organization used within the aei entity, that is w...