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Manchin pans DC statehood bill in another break with Dems

by Kevin Freking
| May 1, 2021 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-shot bid to pass legislation that would make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state got a little longer on Friday.

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