Eleanor Holmes Norton again proposes bill to make DC the 51st US state

Published January 3, 2019 5:59pm ET



House Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., again introduced a bill to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state.

The nonvoting delegate in Congress introduced the bill as her first of the 116th Congress, and it quickly drew 151 cosponsors, according to a press release from her office.

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