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    With Stronger Democratic Support, D.C. Statehood Fight Returns To Capitol Hill

    The measure is expected to pass the House but faces long odds in the Senate, leading some advocates to call for the end of the legislative filibuster.
    by Barbara Sprunt Mar 22, 2021 4 minutes
    Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, seen here during a statehood news conference in June 2020, argues that eliminating the filibuster will pave the way to D.C. becoming the nation's 51st state.

    Thirty years after Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton first introduced a bill for Washington, D.C., statehood, she returns to Capitol Hill to do it again — this time, with the broadest support for the cause to date.

    "We've gotten off of the wish list to an approach of a new reality," Norton, the district's nonvoting delegate, tells NPR.

    Her legislation, H.R. 51, will be the subject of a House Oversight Committee hearing on Monday. It was approved by the Democratic-led House in a historic vote last year, but never reached the GOP-controlled Senate. And although Democrats now hold a slim majority in the Senate, the measure faces long odds in the upper chamber.

    The bill would reduce the size of the federal district and admit of D.C.'s 700,000 residents are people of color.

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