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MAYOR, 37 OTHERS ARRESTED AFTER STATEHOOD PROTEST
Written by Karen Szulgit
By Kent Jenkins Jr., The Washington Post, August 26, 1993
CRIME & JUSTICE: 2 Acquitted of Disrupting Congress
Written by Neely Tucker, Arthur Santana and Tom Jackman | The Washington Post
CRIME & JUSTICE
By Neely Tucker, Arthur Santana and Tom Jackman, The Washington Post, March 1, 2000
By Bern Haggerty, Letter to the Editor
Casper Star-Tribune (Casper, Wyoming)
January 12, 2000 (page 9)
Standard-Freeholder, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, July 4, 2002 (page 18)
"Who Cares About DC?" It's not a rhetorical question!
It is the personal appeal of a DC resident. It is about democracy in the nation's capital, about voter supression, voting rights and what it means to be a citizen of the United States of America where the right to vote is fundamental in our democracy, but under attack in many places in the U.S.
DC is treated as an agency of the federal government, largely managed by the Congressional Oversight and Government Reform Committee, only one of whose members were elected by residents of the District, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and she has no vote in Congress!
The District’s local government enacts laws and creates programs to spend its own locally-generated tax revenues to benefit its residents. But, Congress reviews and approves or denies any such laws, unlike any of the 50 states.
DC residents cannot appeal to or unelect Members of Congress who decide that they can do a better job of governing the District of Columbia than the DC Council and Mayor.
DC residents pay more income taxes than residents of 22 states, but have no representation in the House or the Senate. That’s why DC license plates read, "END Taxation Without Representation.”
With 53 Republicans and 47 Democrats (or Democratic-caucusing independents) in the Senate in the 119th Congress—and Republicans therefore shy of the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster—there is attention to a legislative process for getting tax and spending bills through the Senate known as reconciliation. Here’s what it is and how it works.
What’s a Continuing Resolution and Why Does It Matter?
By Tanya Somanader, Obama administration, The White House, September 19, 2014
Statehood Lobbyist, Norton Testify at Trial
Written by Neely Tucker | The Washington Post
Compiled from reports by staff writers Michael D. Shear, Martin Weil, Phuong Ly and Neely Tucker, The Washington Post, February 25, 2000
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Breaking The Silence On Home Rule
Written by Courtland Milloy | The Washington Postt
Breaking The Silence On Home Rule
By Courtland Milloy, The Washington Post, January 22, 2000
THE HISTORY OF D.C. EMANCIPATION DAY
YES, WE WILL SEE STATEHOOD FOR D.C.
Written by ACLU – District of Columbia
600 PROTESTERS PICKET FOR D.C. OUTSIDE FAIRCLOTH'S FRONT DOOR
Written by Knight Chamberlain | The Washington Post
Sen. Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.) wasn't home. But that didn't stop an estimated 600 demonstrators -- about 400 of whom had journeyed from Washington in a bus caravan -- from picketing outside his house today, protesting Faircloth's role in legislation that stripped D.C. Mayor Marion Barry (D) and other elected D.C. officials of much of their power.
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