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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. residents a voice, vote, and full representation in Congress,” Sen. Carper tweeted. “Today, I’m prou...

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 Wednesday's 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 government. But if she were governor instead of just mayor of DC, Bowser claimed she would have that author...

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 truth of what he said, a lot of it being false, for his side, certainly never for brett kavanaugh on th...

>> 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 that's exactly -- and the answer back then was, yes, we do, because we think there's something important involved, and now kavanaugh is the one saying, come on, you're going to look at my history, 36 years ago. is that relevant? yes, we think it is. and i think -- the universe is more fair than unfair. not every instance is fair. but long-term, t...