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Article: D.C. Voting Rights Supporters Have Best Shot Yet With Obama in the White House.(Barack Obama)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- January 8, 2009
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Byline: Justin Ewers
It is a feeling so widely shared in the District of Columbia, it's on the city's license plates. Beneath the words "Washington, D.C.," in big, bold, blue letters, the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles has printed the phrase, "Taxation without representation."
John Adams couldn't have put it any better. Since the district's founding more than 200 years ago, the residents of the nation's capital, in an ironic twist that infuriates voters and city leaders alike, have had no vote in Congress. The city's lone representative, Eleanor Holmes Norton, is allowed to participate in debate and craft legislation, but she is prohibited by the ...