D.C. statehood hearing postponed until fall
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is postponing a hearing on D.C. statehood until the fall to avoid a conflict with former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s planned testimony before two separate House committees.
The hearing was slated to take place July 24, the same day Mueller is set to testify before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees about his investigation into the 2016 presidential election. The subject of the Oversight Committee’s hearing is a bill, proposed by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) along with 216 Democratic co-sponsors, that would make the District of Columbia the 51st state.
