Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, arrives to hold a confirmation hearing for Tommy Beaudreau of Alaska, to be deputy secretary of the Department of the Interior, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 29, 2021.
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said that he opposes unilateral action by Congress to make the nation’s capital a state and that he believes it needs to be done through a constitutional amendment. He said prior Republican and Democratic administrations thought the same thing. Manchin has also stated unequivocally that he will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster. He is among a handful of Democratic senators who have not openly supported the D.C. statehood initiative.
Sen_JoeManchin please hear our voice... be a true blue democrat and help us get ahead in life...help us here in the trenches...
Joe is correct. The rest of you don’t know what you’re talking about. Hawaii, Alaska,... ?! Not the same thing. D.C. is a special district, the District of Columbia. The place where our country’s business is decided should not be a partisan enclave per our founding fathers
2022 is supposed to be the year more Republicans are up & vulnerable. Un-elect some Republicans, elect more Democrats & make Manchin irrelevant.
Does that mean he's ok with Puerto Rico?
DC needs to be a state or the Senate needs to be restructured so that the fate of a bill, and course of the nation really- doesnt rest at the hands of a senator of a state with 1.7million people. Equal representation, why should CA w 39million have only 2 senators 😠. Unequal.
Way to go, West Virginia...
aoc justicedems Maybe Joe needs a financial contribution from you guys? transparency
Hmm. Maybe he needs to reread the constitution, as amendments are voted on BY THE STATES, not the people.. sigh. And WV didn't require one, so that's all baloney anyways.
Because he would lose control of the senate with his one vote
What is the history of statehood in America? Has every state been comeinto the fold through a constitutional amendment? Think Alaska, Hawaii in particular. Will Puerto Rico take a constitutional amendment? They have voted on this before, I know.
The District of Columbia's creation is rooted in Article I, section 8, clause 17 of the Constitution, which says that the “Seat of the Government of the United States” shall be a district that is at most ten square miles and separate and apart from the other “particular States.”
DINO
When Democrats hear the Constitution is in the way.
Manchin is a power hungry McConnell ins hero’s clothing set out to destroy the Democratic Party while we are in a position of power. He should be ashamed of himself when Republicans take back power and I hope his voters hold him accountable. He doesn’t care about them.
Ughhhh
DC can join Maryland if they want to be in a state. The Federal District is defined in the Constitution.
AnnMB48 And once again Sen_JoeManchin let’s everyone down, except republicans.
Manchin is for any…… thing…..that….. slows….. progress…
PersephoneTulon He means it will require some earmarks that will benefit him and his state.
Make Washington, DC a state. Let Florida and Texas remove themselves. We can also add Puerto Rico. We’ll still have 50 States. Then do not elect Manchin. He'll then learn his lesson. Problem solved!
Jennifer Garner should primary Manchin in 2024
We must have politicians on all sides who are true to our nation and have ou confidence. Washington DC, for the integrity of democracy must remain neutral grounds where none can control the field. DC belongs to US the people and nation.
No words.
D.C pay more in federal taxes than WV and other red states Joe is a D.I.N.O Sen_JoeManchin. America now you understand what systemic racism looks like for POC when Joe a white man decide he don’t want POC to have a voice in the senate...
Manchin is our real president unfortunately
Manchin is a fake dem he should switch party he opposed to everything
Get this piece of trash out of here.
President Manchin strikes out again.
Good, Manchin.
Manchin is a Repug in Dem clothing. He’s a traitor to his own party. Wasn’t it his daughter who raised the price of the EpiPen 500%, allowing her salary to skyrocket. Manchin just wants to protect his family’s wealth at all cost. Tax everybody but the rich. Leave the rich alone.
P.O.S. Republican stooge
If people really want the people that live in D.C., to have the right to vote, they would make them residents of the surrounding states. They won't because, they don't care about those people, only power. The D.C. was created so that no ONE state would have the capitol.
It's absurd that Prime Minister Manchin gets to have this much power when West Virginia ranks... *checks SRuhle failure list* 45 in education 47 in healthcare 48 in the economy 50 in infrastructure
Which is false. Call it what it is, dammit.
simple don't tax the residents of Columbia. No taxation without representation.
Manchin is just a republican.
neeratanden stanned this douche. Lmao. He shit on her confirmation. And now he's shitting on the Dems. You love to see it. Lmao
he doesn’t want it because it would get rid of his personal input’s importance. he would just be another walking-the-line conservative democrat senator at that point.
I need them to find some dirt on this guy so they can start blackmailing him, STAT. It works too, look at Lindsay.
Looks like he’s standing at the pulpit
What number were the amendments for Alaska and Hawaii?
Joeanchin is working to ensure the GOP Insurrectionists regain power in '22.
Please, Please, Please primary Joe Manchin. He’s not a democrat. Period! Sen_JoeManchin
Joe, get it right. No new state was admitted by constitutional amendment. All 37 new states were admitted by Congress, and there has never been a successful constitutional challenge to the admission of a state.
Joe Manchin is a Republican spy.
How can these ppl be voting on things they don’t understand and not bother to even get informed by his own party. What a fkn tool
He's looking for excuses. Requiring an amendment is ridiculous. I would add US VI as well.
Just another distraction...
He's so useless.
Ugh never ends with him.
No it doesn’t. Time that Manchin just admit he’s a Republican.
Dc not becoming a state isn't in the constitution. 9 judges is not in the constitution. Filibuster is not in the constitution. Where to they find these guys. Read the constitution.
he lies like a republican
Just reabsorb the land back into the original state. Why cant they just do that? It's been down before
That man loves his attention. DINO
🤔🤔🤔 Was West Virginia carved out with a constitutional amendment? 🚨Spoiler🚨 IT WASNT !!! =Unconstitutional Nonsense Taxation without Representation ! The entire Union can't prevent a territory from writing a constitution and entering the union = Unconstitutional
Liar
Anyone want to ask him why he thinks that? Literally no other state became a state that way
God he sucks so much. The only silver lining is that maybe, (and this is a BIG maybe) the DINOs may motivate dem voters to go out and vote in the midterms to get more dem senators to take away their power.
West Virginia was literally created during the civil war when half the country was attacking the other half. Where is the amendment needed for WV?
DC, as a place to live should not exist. DC should only be the Section where Federal business is done. All of the other areas should be absorbed by the states that surround it.
republicans would agree to making DC a state as long as all of Northern Virginia was incorporated into it.
Time to pull out of West Virginia DC residents.
Change the 2nd amendment while you’re at it
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