Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has already issued her support for D.C.’s latest statehood bill, and now a member of Congress with more Twitter followers than the speaker has come on board, too: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman elected to Congress who has been making headlines since her surprise primary defeat of a longtime incumbent, makes the 172nd representative in the House to become a co-sponsor of the bill. So far, all of them are Democrats.

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Ocasio-Cortez has already spoken out about a few issues in D.C., including the high cost of rent and the need for Hill staffers to work service jobs to make ends meet.

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Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced H.R. 51, named as such because it would make D.C. the 51st state, with 155 co-sponsors. That’s the most ever for the statehood bill since Norton began introducing it each Congressional term since her first in 1991. By the end of last term, the bill had 181 original co-sponsors.

But now, with Democrats in the House majority, the bill has the potential to go further than it did under Republican control (which was … nowhere). Norton has a promise from Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings that the bill will get a hearing and markup, a first for a statehood bill in the House since 1993. And with Pelosi’s support, there’s a high likelihood that H.R. 51 will get a floor vote. Still, its doubtful the bill will get a vote in the Senate, where the GOP is still in the majority.

Norton and other statehood advocates have long said that the disenfranchisement of Washingtonians, who do not have any voting representation in the Senate and a limited voice in the House despite paying federal taxes and having a higher population than two states, is a bipartisan issue. But many Republicans see D.C. gaining two senators and a member in the House as three guaranteed seats for Democrats, considering the political leanings of the District.

The chances for a floor vote on H.R. 51 aren’t the only measurable impact of a Democratic-led House for Norton.

House Republicans often use must-pass legislation as opportunities to add amendments that would uniquely affect D.C. That hasn’t stopped with Democrats in control—of four amendments filed to the 2019 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill (which includes D.C. appropriations), three of them specifically targeted the District, per Norton’s office. But what has changed is that the House Rules Committee, now run by Dems, rejected the amendments during the markup.

Norton said in a statement: “What a difference it makes to be in the majority, more so for the District of Columbia than any other district.”