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You know, I always thought making a city into a state was a dumb idea, but then I learned how populous it is and how empty some states actually are. There really isn’t a good reason not to.
Carper has led previous efforts to get the bill through in the Senate in partnership with the District of Columbia’s non-voting delegate to the U.S. House, Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), whose name on Twitter is Eleanor “#DCStatehood” Holmes Norton.  

While republicans in the House will never allow this to pass for fear of DC electing Democrats, DC deserves statehood and has for a while. The people there are effectively unrepresented, and DC has a bigger population than Wyoming, which has two Senators!