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5 hours ago · It also means Congress — where D.C. has no voting representation — has the final say on D.C. law. That's why D.C. license plates say, "Taxation without representation." There is one exception.
5 days ago · How many representatives in the U.S. Congress does your state have? Use the map and table below to find out.
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23 hours ago · In 1871 Congress created a territorial government comprising a governor, an 11-member council appointed by the president, and a popularly elected 22-member House of Delegates. Washington was also allotted a nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives.
4 days ago · A Nation’s New Home. The President’s House, Washington D.C., January 1817 by Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Source: Library of Congress. The United States capital officially relocated from Pennsylvania to Washington DC in 1800, once construction ended on the North Wing of the Capitol Building. The first president to begin his term in the new ...
2 days ago · Washington’s character improved significantly with the completion of the Washington Monument in 1884, the Library of Congress in 1897, and, beginning in the late 1890s, the proliferation of social organizations, private clubs, and formal societies for the arts.
2 days ago · In this event, the House of Representatives is limited to choosing from among the three candidates who received the most electoral votes for president. Each state delegation votes en bloc—each delegation having a single vote; the District of Columbia does not get
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