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? asked in TravelUnited StatesWashington, D.C. · 10 months ago

Doesn't Washington DC have a representative from another state?

Or something similar

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  • 10 months ago

    No, Washington DC isn't part of a state. They have a delegate in Confress of their own but that delegate cannot vote

  • MS
    Lv 7
    10 months ago

    They have a representative in the House of Representatives who can participate in committees and other discussions, but who cannot vote on the floor of the House (where it really matters).

  • 10 months ago

    No, it doesn't.  It does have a nonvoting representative of its own, who is from DC and is not from any state.

  • 10 months ago

    The ridiculous movement to make Washington DC a state is an attempt to add two Black Senators and a Black Representative to Congress.

    Better would be to make DC like a US territory for taxation purposes. US territories don't have voting representatives in Congress because they don't pay federal income taxes.  

  • 10 months ago

    From another state? I don't know what that means. Residents of D.C. have no voting representative in the House or the Senate. That's why there's discussion of statehood. It would give those tax payers representation. 

  • 10 months ago

    I'll assume you mean a representative in Congress.  The answer is no.  Like Puerto Rico, they have a non-voting delegate who can sit on committees but has not voting power in the end.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 months ago

    Not that I know of.

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