[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 70 (Thursday, April 22, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2061]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                             D.C. STATEHOOD

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, yet another blatant political power grab is 
underway on the heels of H.R. 1, nationalizing all that is wrong with 
our elections, the packing of the Supreme Court, and now we have H.R. 
51, an unconstitutional bill to create a State of Washington, D.C.
  The Founders were very clear and specific to leave our District out 
of the coercion and the tentacles of a State trying to influence it.
  No. This is yet another naked power grab to ensure two new Democratic 
Senators in a 90 percent Democrat district. That is the result they are 
trying to get. This new State would be 1/17th the size of Rhode Island 
and about the same population as Fresno, California.
  In 1847, the Virginia Retrocession Act took some of the excess land 
that they weren't using and put it back into Virginia. We can do the 
same thing with a bill I am coauthoring, taking the unneeded part and 
putting it back into Maryland, instead of trying to create a State 
against the Constitution.
  This is a power grab that must be stopped. It is unconstitutional, 
and it goes against the grain of what our Founders had in mind to have 
separation.

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