Similarly to D. Including Puerto Rico, 14 territories are overseen by the United States. Some of these territories, such as Puerto Rico, Guam, the U. Additionally, Midway Atoll and Palmyra Atoll are also inhabited, but have populations of less than people. The majority of these territories are located in the Pacific Ocean. World View. The District of Columbia. Puerto Rico Many people mistake Puerto Rico for a state, but it's actually a territory.
Four of the 50 states include the term "Commonwealth" in their official names, which references the English term for a political community founded for the common good. Those four states are Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky. David Young. Cindy Axne. Kansas' 2nd. Lynn Jenkins. Steve Watkins. Kansas' 3rd. Kevin Yoder. Sharice Davids. Kentucky's 6th. Andy Barr. Maine's 2nd. Bruce Poliquin. Jared Golden. Michigan's 8th. Mike Bishop. Elissa Slotkin. Michigan's 11th. David Trott.
Haley Stevens. Minnesota's 1st. Tim Walz. Jim Hagedorn. Minnesota's 2nd. Jason Lewis. Angie Craig. Minnesota's 3rd. Erik Paulsen.
Dean Phillips. Minnesota's 8th. Rick Nolan. Pete Stauber. Montana's at-large. Greg Gianforte. Nebraska's 2nd. Don Bacon. Nevada's 3rd. Jacky Rosen. Susie Lee. Nevada's 4th. Ruben Kihuen. Steven Horsford. New Hampshire's 1st. Carol Shea-Porter. Chris Pappas. New Jersey's 2nd. Frank LoBiondo.
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Ben McAdams. Virginia's 2nd. Scott Taylor. Elaine Luria. Virginia's 5th. Thomas Garrett. Denver Riggleman. Virginia's 7th. David Brat. Abigail Spanberger. Virginia's 10th. Barbara Comstock. Jennifer Wexton. Washington's 3rd. Jaime Herrera Beutler. Washington's 5th. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Washington's 8th. Dave Reichert. Kim Schrier. Washington's 9th. Adam Smith. West Virginia's 3rd.
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Earl Carter. House Georgia District 2. Sanford Bishop Jr. House Georgia District 3. Drew Ferguson. House Georgia District 4. Hank Johnson. House Georgia District 5. Nikema Williams. House Georgia District 6. House Georgia District 7. Carolyn Bourdeaux. House Georgia District 8. Austin Scott. House Georgia District 9. Andrew Clyde. House Georgia District Jody Hice. Barry Loudermilk.
Rick Allen. David Scott. Marjorie Taylor Greene. House Hawaii District 1. Ed Case. House Hawaii District 2. Kaiali'i Kahele. House Idaho District 1.
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Marie Newman. House Illinois District 4. Jesus Garcia. House Illinois District 5. As a result, the federal government is increasingly acting on behalf of a smaller fraction of the population. And unless Democrats get serious about adding new states to counteract the Republican advantage, the disconnect between popular votes and control of the federal government is likely to grow. The only way to seriously address the issue is for congressional Democrats to add states, thereby changing the balance of power with new representatives.
The good news for Democrats is that this can be done by a simple majority in Congress. Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to admit new states, subject to a presidential veto. Historically, many states existed as federal territories prior to statehood, and some states spent years negotiating with Congress on the terms of their admission.
But these are optional steps—all it really takes is an act of Congress delineating the boundaries of new states and providing for their congressional elections. There are already several plausible candidates for new states that would lean Democratic. The permanently inhabited territories, like Puerto Rico, are similarly disenfranchised, and could also make good candidates for statehood.
But with a renewed expression of support for statehood and a promise of equal citizenship, the territories should be allowed to join the union. A third option is simply to break an existing Democratic state into multiple states. This would require permission from the state being broken, but perhaps one state—or several—would be enticed by the prospect of increasing its representation in Congress, and changing the balance of power in the federal government.
Wherever they come from, new Democratic states would immediately provide two benefits. First, they would add Democratic votes to the Senate and the Electoral College, which would largely, if not entirely, neutralize the existing Republican advantages in those institutions. As a result, the federal government would more closely reflect the policy preferences of the electorate.
Popular legislative ideas like gun control, paid family leave, and immigration reform—ideas that for years have died in the Republican-friendly Senate—might finally have a chance. Second, new states would prevent Republican retaliation, at least temporarily.
Unlike court packing or filibuster reform—which practically invite an escalating set of tit-for-tats—adding new states, if done aggressively enough, prevents an opposition party from doing the same by bolstering the Senate majority the opposition would need to add states of their own.
When adding states, there is no back-and-forth. Whichever party strikes first wins. Republicans would, of course, cry foul, and accuse Democrats of manipulating the statehood process for partisan purposes. As Ian Millhiser has written, back when Republicans were the party of Lincoln they understood this well. Rather than risk defeat, they turned the sparsely populated territory of Nevada into a state, adding friendly votes to Congress and the Electoral College.
In , Republicans returned to the same playbook. Democrats had proposed a compromise whereby several western territories would be admitted in numbers that would evenly balance incoming Democrat and Republican senators. But when Republicans swept the election, they decided to sweeten the deal.
Dakota was split in half to create four new Republican senators, and New Mexico would remain a territory until But in truth, the politics of statehood have never been divorced from the effect they have on the balance of power in Congress.
Republicans might also argue that the addition of new states would be unfair. Objections to the unfairness of new senators from, say, the new states of Brooklyn and Queens should ring hollow. Each of those boroughs, by itself, has a population larger than that of a dozen states. In , Brooklynites cast more votes for Donald Trump than Alaskans did, where Trump won by double digits.
Why are the boroughs of New York City—sizable communities with distinct politics and history—less deserving of statehood than Alaska, Vermont, or any other state with a smaller population?
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