HR 21 – AS INTRODUCED
2014 SESSION
01/08
HOUSE RESOLUTION 21
A RESOLUTION expressing support for the right of residents of the District of Columbia to be fully represented in the Congress of the United States of America.
SPONSORS: Rep. Rosenwald, Hills 30; Rep. Theberge, Coos 3; Rep. Cote, Hills 31
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
This house resolution expresses support for the right of residents of the District of Columbia to be fully represented in the Congress of the United States of America.
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14-2249
01/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen
A RESOLUTION expressing support for the right of residents of the District of Columbia to be fully represented in the Congress of the United States of America.
Whereas, over 600,000 citizens of the District of Columbia pay taxes to the federal government but are denied voting representation in the Congress of the United States; and
Whereas, over 194,000 citizens of the District of Columbia have fought in our armed forces in service to our nation; and
Whereas, the federal government has sent its armed forces, among them District of Columbia citizens, to fight on foreign soil in support and defense of democratic ideals while denying the residents of our own national capital the right of legislative representation; and
Whereas, those efforts to spread liberty and democracy to the far corners of the globe are undermined and diminished by the denial of democratic rights to over 600,000 citizens of the United?States of America; and
Whereas, 9 service members from the District of Columbia have lost their lives in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan; and
Whereas, the United States is the only nation in the world with a representative, democratic constitution that denies voting representation in the national legislature to the citizens of the capital; and
Whereas, the District of Columbia is the only political and geographical entity within the United?States whose citizens bear the full responsibilities of citizenship without sharing in the appropriate privileges of citizenship; and
Whereas, the New Hampshire house of representatives is a shining example of representational democracy; now therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives:
That the New Hampshire house of representatives declares its support for the right of residents of the District of Columbia to be fully represented in the Congress of the United States of America; and
That copies of this resolution, signed by the speaker of the house of representatives, be forwarded by the house clerk to the President of the United States of America, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the President of the United States Senate, the Mayor of the District of Columbia, the Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia and to each member of the New Hampshire congressional delegation.