After years of going back and forth, lawmakers return to Capitol Hill Thursday to vote on making D.C. the nation’s 51st state.
If such a vote goes through, that will give the District of Columbia two years to show off its statehood status that will have just one voice in Congress.
Critics contend that D.C., which is currently represented by Democratic Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, is too small to be a state.
D.C., with a population of 700,000 residents, is a heavily Democratic jurisdiction.
