{"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":"representation-equitable-pour-dc","status":"publish","type":"work","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/work\/fair-representation-for-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Repr\u00e9sentation \u00e9quitable pour 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>ils aiment avoir un vote significatif, une v\u00e9ritable repr\u00e9sentation et une voix pleine et enti\u00e8re au sein de leur gouvernement.<\/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>Il s\u2019agit d\u2019un \u00e9norme deux poids deux mesures : <\/b>Le Wyoming et le Vermont, tous deux moins peupl\u00e9s que Washington DC et plus de 901 habitants blancs, obtiennent deux s\u00e9nateurs am\u00e9ricains et un repr\u00e9sentant. <b>Mais DC, qui est 47% Black, n&#039;a pas un seul membre votant dans aucune des deux chambres du Congr\u00e8s.\u00a0<\/b>\r\n\r\nLa Constitution ne donne que <i>\u00c9tats<\/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>sans avoir leur mot \u00e0 dire sur la fa\u00e7on dont l\u2019argent des imp\u00f4ts est d\u00e9pens\u00e9.<\/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> refus\u00e9 une place \u00e0 la table de notre d\u00e9mocratie <\/b>for far too long. But the Washington, D.C. 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>L\u2019adoption de ce projet de loi donnerait enfin aux r\u00e9sidents de DC la repr\u00e9sentation \u00e9lectorale au Congr\u00e8s qu\u2019ils m\u00e9ritent.<\/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 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