{"id":20953,"date":"2024-07-03T14:38:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/?post_type=work&#038;p=20953"},"modified":"2025-06-06T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T19:24:19","slug":"faire-vertretung-fur-dc","status":"publish","type":"work","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/work\/fair-representation-for-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Faire Vertretung f\u00fcr DC"},"template":"","class_list":["post-20953","work","type-work","status-publish","hentry","work_type-legislation"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"It's time to give D.C. residents the voting representation in Congress they deserve.","featured_image":"","work_type":158,"related_issues":[142,132,2066],"location":46},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<h3><b>700,000 people live in the District of Columbia -- but they have zero voting representation in Congress.<\/b><\/h3>\r\nThat\u2019s not democracy -- and it\u2019s long past time for D.C. to become the 51st state and for its residents to have an equal say in the decisions that affect them.\r\n\r\nRight now, those living in our nation\u2019s capital don\u2019t get the fundamental rights that their fellow Americans enjoy -- <b>wie eine bedeutungsvolle Stimmabgabe, echte Vertretung und volle Mitsprache in ihrer Regierung.<\/b>"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_image","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_image":{"image":3394,"width":"medium"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<b>Das ist eine gewaltige Doppelmoral: <\/b>Wyoming und Vermont, die beide weniger bev\u00f6lkerungsreich als DC sind und mehr als 90% Wei\u00dfe haben, stellen zwei US-Senatoren und einen Abgeordneten. <b>Aber DC, das hei\u00dft 47% Black, hat in keiner der beiden Kammern des Kongresses ein einziges stimmberechtigtes Mitglied.\u00a0<\/b>\r\n\r\nDie Verfassung gibt nur <i>Staaten<\/i> voting representation in Congress, which means D.C. residents (as well as people who live in U.S. territories like Puerto Rico) don\u2019t have full representation in Congress.\r\n\r\nD.C. residents pay more in total federal income tax than those in 22 other states \u2014 <b>Und das, obwohl sie keinerlei Mitspracherecht bei der Verwendung dieser Steuergelder haben.<\/b> (It\u2019s the reason DC license plates say \u201cTaxation Without Representation.\u201d) And Washingtonians have fought and died in every war our country has been in \u2014 yet those veterans are denied the very freedoms they risked their lives for.\r\n\r\nThese Americans have been<b> ein Platz am Tisch unserer Demokratie verweigert <\/b>for far too long. 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Admission Act \u2014 which passed the House in 2020 and was re-introduced on January 4, 2021, would bring an end to this long-standing injustice.\r\n\r\nIf this bill passed, Washington, D.C. would become the 51st U.S. state known as \u201cWashington, Douglass Commonwealth\u201d \u2014 with two U.S. Senators and a proportionate number of U.S. Representatives elected by its population.\r\n\r\n<b>Durch die Verabschiedung dieses Gesetzes w\u00fcrden die Einwohner von Washington D.C. endlich die Stimmvertretung im Kongress erhalten, die sie verdienen.<\/b>"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_add_component","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_add_component":null},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_take_action","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_take_action":{"heading":"Take Action","button_text":"","manually_curate":false,"action":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_banner","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_banner":{"use_donate_banner":true,"title":"Title [highlight]with highlighting[\/highlight] and additional text.","button":null,"image":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_related_articles","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_related_articles":{"heading":"Updates","button_text":"See all Related Articles","manually_curate":false,"articles":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_resources","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_resources":{"heading":"Related Resources","button_text":"See all Related Resources","manually_curate":false,"resource":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_press","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_press":{"heading":"Press","button_text":"","manually_curate":false,"press":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_events","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_events":{"heading":"Events"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_our_experts","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_our_experts":{"heading":"","manually_curate":false,"people":null}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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