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ATTENTION DC STATEHOOD SUPPORTERS: Advise your colleagues, family and friends who live in these six states – Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire and West Virginia – to ask their United States Senators to support and vote for S.51, the Washington, DC Admission Act, introduced by Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE). DC RESIDENTS NEED TO HAVE EQUAL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS! 38 ORIGINAL BILL COSPONSORS: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) FOUR ADD-ON BILL COSPONSORS: Sen. Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH) Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) NEW (D) SENATORS WHO HAVE NOT YET COSPONSORED THE DC STATEHOOD BILL: Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) (202) 224-5941 @SenatorHick www.hickenlooper.senate.gov Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) (202) 224-2235 @SenMarkKelly www.kelly.senate.gov Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) (202) 224-3521 @ossoff https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/contact/ (D) SENATORS WHO COSPONSORED THE BILL LAST YEAR BUT NOT THIS YEAR: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) (202) 224-2841 @SenatorShaheen www.shaheen.senate.gov/contact/contact-jeanne (D/I) SENATORS WHO HAVE NEVER COSPONSORED THE DC STATEHOOD BILL: Sen. Angus King (I-ME) (202) 224-5344 @SenAngusKing www.king.senate.gov/contact Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) (202) 224-3954 @Sen_JoeManchin www.manchin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) (202) 224-4521 @SenatorSinema www.sinema.senate.gov/contact-kyrsten Stand Up! for Democracy in DC (Free DC) is the first community-based organization to advocate and educate for civil rights and full citizenship – which can be achieved through DC statehood – for 712,000 residents of the District of Columbia since its founding in 1997. www.FreeDC.org [email protected] Free DC – Statehood NOW! .

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