Office of United States Senator Ankit Jain

Ankit Jain was elected DC’s United States Senator in 2024, and was sworn in January 2025. Senator Jain advocates before the U.S. Senate to advance DC statehood and protect DC Home Rule. Since getting elected, Sen. Jain has been hard at work protecting DC’s rights from attack by the federal government. Jain is a resident of Ward 2, and is a voting rights attorney who currently works as an independent legal contractor for Parsons Law, advocating for everyone to have the right to cast a meaningful vote through ranked choice voting.

According to the Code of the District of Columbia, a Senator:

(1) Shall inform the Congress and individual members of Congress that the District of Columbia residents meet the standards traditionally required by Congress for the admission of a United States territory as a state of the United States;

(2) Shall monitor the progress of the petition for admission of New Columbia to statehood pending before the Congress and report on the progress to the District of Columbia residents; and

(3) May advise the District of Columbia on matters of public policy that bear on the achievement of statehood.

More information is available on Senator's Jain's website.