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Jun 09, 2010
D.C. Council Kills Statehood Committee
Photo by Ronnie R City Desk reports that the D.C. Council has killed the Special Committee on Statehood and Self-Determination — and it’s Council member Marion Barry’s (D-Ward 8) fault. Well, kind of. When the council took away Barry’s chairmanship of the Housing and Workforce Development committee earlier this year, it replaced him with Council member Michael Brown (I-At Large), effectively pulling Brown away from his perch at the statehood committee. That committee was…