McConnell and Schumer Agreement on Committees/Rules

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Schumer should just threaten to pass DC statehood if they don't reach and agreement by Feb 1.

DC statehood is not a bargaining chip. Modern Jim Crow must be ended ASAP, regardless of how this fight with McConnell goes.

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This is a clusterf***.

https://twitter.com/DavidNir/status/1352823820797816833

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This is a clusterf***.

https://twitter.com/DavidNir/status/1352823820797816833

Surely an impeachment trial will fix that!

... No one said it would?

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I hope the people of Maine are happy they put America in this situation.

(To be fair, you could blame other states as well.)

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DC statehood vote when?

Whenever the House passes it and sends it to them.

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Manchin and Sinema support DC statehood, so just make DC a state to minimize their votes.

The problem is that even if Manchin and Sinema support it, DC statehood can't happen while there's still a filibuster.

They can do like McConnell did with Supreme Court justices and specifically exclude the filibuster from applying to the admission of new states.

Or they could put it in the reconciliation bill and overrule the parliamentarian on a simple majority vote.

DC statehood is a 100% lock to happen if all 50 Democrats want it to, and it doesn't require complete abolition of the filibuster.