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Lisa Boothe, former Democrat official spar over DC statehood 'power grab': What if Washington was 'red'?
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Boothe says Maryland Rep. Raskin 'gave up the game' when he criticized the Senate as an 'obstacle to progress'
The new name would be a nod to Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a Republican whom then-President Rutherford Birchard Hayes named the first Black U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia in 1877. Pelosi said District residents "pay taxes, fight in our wars and contribute to the economic might of our country" but are disenfranchised as a collective. On "The Story," Bolden echoed the House Speaker, saying the Holmes Norton bill would enfranchise "700,000 people that don't have a vote in the Senate or the House."More Related News