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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't the Constitution pretty clear about DC supposedly not being a "political" town - which it would be if it achieved statehood. I do not think it does the country good to have the nation's capital a state with powerful elected officials who'd be so staunchly left wing liberals (no state in the country comes anywhere close to DC's 90+% Democratic voting majority). Talk about special interests politicians...... rather ironic given some of the comments on here.

Keep DC politically neutral. It works just fine and dandy that way. And if you're so upset about not having congressmen or senators, just move a few miles to Maryland or Virginia. No one is holding a gun to your head.

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The federal govt buildings would remain part of a federal district, seperate from the new state.   The White House, the Supreme Court, the Capitol building and congressional office buildings, would all remain in the Federal District, as would several cabinet departs along the Mall.

A few departments (DHS, I suppose, for example) would end up in the State of New Columbia - just as the Department of Defense is in Virginia.

Of course today the federal office buildings, the WH, etc in the District of Columbia, under local elected officials. While congress does sometimes interfere in local law, I can't think of any recent case where they did so in ways that actually mattered to federal govt operations. [/quote]

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