On Jan. 6, at the behest of the outgoing president of the United States, domestic terrorists attacked the legislative branch of the government of the United States.

Sen. Joe Manchin, West Virginia Democrat, is open to adding two new states — the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

The liberal push to add the District and Puerto Rico comes as Democrats see adding U.S. Senate seats from those jurisdictions as providing them with a firmer grasp on control of Congress.

D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) this week renewed the call for Washington to become the nation's 51st state.

Why it matters: Democrats support D.C. statehood because it's likely to add two more senators from their party. Two turning points this week — the siege of the U.S. Capitol and Democrats new control of the Senate — have built momentum for the issue of D.C. statehood to come up at the start of the congressional session and President-elect Joe Biden's presidency.

Less than six months before a mob of the sitting president’s supporters would descend upon the United States Capitol, a more solemn crowd gathered at its steps. Among those who arrived to pay their final respects to the late Representative John Lewis were Washington, D.C., residents who appreciated his unwavering support of statehood for the district.

What happened Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol should be a moment of rupture for our political system. Something needs to change. America needs a serious democracy reform agenda, one that gives a new and elevated role to the pro-democracy Republicans who have been fighting with their increasingly extreme anti-system party for the last few weeks. Democracy reform has to be the top priority, with at least some Republicans hopping on board and Democrats finding ways to help them get there.

On Wednesday, the nation watched dumbfounded and appalled — frustrated, but not surprised — as a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump breached the U.S. Capitol and mounted a violent insurrection. The coup attempt stopped a joint session of Congress that was supposed to finalize the election of President-elect Joe Biden.

If ever there was a moment to call in the National Guard, this seemed to be it.

The case to make the District of Columbia the 51st state is stronger than ever after insurrectionists descended on the U.S. Capitol today in an attempt to prevent Congress from lawfully certifying Joe Biden as the next president of the United States.

It’s simple, as the election results now stand Mitch McConnell could be the next Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate which would make the D.C. statehood bill dead on arrival when the House once again passes it.

As Election Day nears, conservative lawmakers like Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming have warned that Democrats plan to “stack the Senate” by admitting new states to the union if they win control of the presidency and Congress. We certainly hope so. Democrats should make District of Columbia statehood a top priority if they win in November. Adding a star to the American flag for the district would be good for the Democratic Party and good for democracy.

it was dismayed two weeks ago to read a letter by a fellow Democrat scolding the party — including Tucson area representatives Raúl Grijalva, Ann Kirkpatrick, and Tom O’Halleran — for backing a bill giving statehood to the residents of the District of Columbia.

Before retiring to Green Valley, I lived in the District of Columbia for over 30 years. I have often been frustrated by people conflating DC individuals and families with the president, Congress and the rest of official Washington.

In Washington, D.C., we saw what it was like to live under the thumb of a lawless president. While much of the city remained calm and peaceful, President Donald Trump responded to protests demanding racial justice with tear gas and a violent authoritarianism that no American city should face.

No state in our union is subject to the egregious violations of local sovereignty that D.C. endures, let alone this sort of quasi-occupation.

As a resident of Washington, D.C., I was sorry to see Jeff Jacoby’s column “The Constitution says no to D.C. statehood” (Ideas, June 21). Jacoby argues that it would violate the Constitution to shrink the federal district to a tiny part of central D.C., leaving the rest of the city as a new, 51st state.

The U.S. House of Representatives has set a vote for Friday, June 26 to finally grant statehood to the District of Columbia. This will be the first time since 1993 since either chamber of Congress has taken up the issue. With 226 co-sponsors, the bill is all but guaranteed to pass.

On Friday, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would make the District of Columbia the 51st state. While the bill is unlikely to survive the Republican-controlled Senate—or President Donald Trump’s veto pen—it’s still a milestone in the long battle for full political representation for the residents of the nation’s capital city.

The District is one step closer to becoming the 51st state. On June 26, the House of Representatives voted to pass l H-R 51, also known as the D.C. Statehood Bill.

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), or as D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser calls her, “our warrior on the Hill,” took to Twitter to share her excitement about the historic vote for the nation’s capital.

THE HOUSE of Representatives voted Friday to make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state. It was a signature moment, the first time in history that a chamber of Congress has formally approved statehood for the District. Credit to the 232 Democratic House members who, in a largely party-line vote, recognized and acted on the injustice of more than 705,000 Americans long denied their rights as citizens.