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Washington mdash;Democratic Senator Tom Carper of Delaware, joined by a group of more than three dozen fellow Democrats, has introduced a bill to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state, continuing the years-long campaign to grant statehood to the nation s capital.While the D.C. statehood movement enjoys widespread stanley cup support from Democrats, who control the White House and both houses of Congress, Republican lawmakers generally oppose the effort, and the district is unlikely to become a state unless Democrats take the controversial step of eliminating the legislative filibusterin the Senate.Carper introduced the companion bill to House l stanley cup egislation to make D.C. a state on Tuesday. The House passed a D.C. statehood bill last year by a vote of 232 to 180. The bill has 38 cosponsors in the Senate, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. President Biden said that he would support D.C. statehood during the presidential campaign. This isn t a Republican or Democratic issue; it s an American issue because the lack of fair representation for D.C. residents is clearly inconsistent with the values stanley mug on which this country was founded, Carper said in a statement. It is therefore incumbent upon all of us who enjoy the right and the privilege of full voting rights and representation to take up the cause of our fellow citizens in the District of Columbia. The legislation would provide voting representation for the city s roughly 692,000 residents, Xfdf Ted Cruz targets Obama and Republicans in remarks
President Obama s visit to General Electric s birthplace in Schenectady, New York today comes as part of his 2011 economi stanley isolierkanne c push. So far almost everything he ha stanley hrnek s done this year has been focused on the economy, from his editorial in the Wall Street Journal promising to rollback burdensome regulationsto hiring a new Chief of Staff, Bill Daley, who has strong ties to the business community. In his non-announcement announcement that President Obama will run for re-election, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said working on the economy is the highest priority. We ve started and we ve made some progress on getting our economy back in order, and I think the President wants to continue to do that, he said. Overnight, the White House continued the trend: It announced that Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO and Chairman of General Electric, had been named chair of a brand new advisory group, the President s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. stanley mug In a statement, President Obama said, As we enter a new phase in our recovery, I have asked the new Council to focus its work on finding new ways to encourage the private sector to hire and invest in American competitiveness. Meanwhile, the Republican Study Committee, a large group of conservative House Republicans, is focused on cutting spending. The RSC yesterday offered a detailed plan to cut the federal budget deficit. Their plan would save taxpayers $2.5 trillion through 2021. It starts by keeping H |
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