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Voting for the 51st State
In November 2016, one of the questions which DC citizens were asked to vote on was whether the city of Washington DC should become a state.
Setting the table for the question, DC is not a state, which means no representation in the US Congress.  DC citizens do vote for President with 3 electoral votes. The US representative sits in Congress, but has no vote, similar to auditing a college class in a way.  The original table was set by the Constitution which set it up such that the city and no state would have no impact on Congress and thus be a step above the other states.  Taking this one step forward, Congress rules the city, still to this day.  All DC legislation is approved by Congress, which does allow for interesting positions wherey the city votes on way and out of state Congressmen disallow the legislation.  Usually, sometimes Congress doesn't respond quickly enough, which may explain why the 2015 legalization of marijuana got through Congressional oversight.  Budgets are also included within this oversight, which does allow for true Congressional power in many ways.
Some legislation is written which gives States particular powers and responsibilities, and I do like to see how ... more

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