President Obama on statehood for D.C.: I'm for it'

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President Barack Obama speaks about the My Brother’s Keeper Initiative, at the Walker Jones Education Campus in Washington, Monday, July 21, 2014. President Obama announced that leaders of 60 of the largest school systems have pledged to expand minority boys' access to better preschools and advanced classes and to try to prevent grade retention, suspensions and expulsions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)





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President Barack Obama says he supports statehood for the nation's capital.
Obama was asked Monday about the prospect of the District of Columbia becoming the 51st state during a town hall at a city school.
The president said, "I'm for it," adding that he has been "for quite some time."
Obama added that: "The politics of it end up being difficult to get through Congress, but I think it's absolutely the right thing to do."
Obama has previously spoken in favor of giving the District voting representation in Congress, and the White House has consistently supported giving the local government full control of the city's budget and laws.
Following his re-election in 2012, Obama added District license plates with the phrase "Taxation Without Representation" to his official vehicles.

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