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1. Is this one result of Democrats' failure to give statehood to DC

Thu Feb 12, 2026, 08:42 PM

13 hrs ago

during the Biden Administration? I think so.

For once, the Democrats and their aligned "independents" voted as a united group against this, while four Republicans sat it out, including McConnell, who apparently is not quite dead but not at all well.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00037.htm

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