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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 195 

To provide for full voting representation in Congress for the citizens of 

the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 26, 2005 

Mr. LIEBERMAN (for himself, Mr. FEINGOLD, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. DODD, Mr. 

DAYTON, Mr. CORZINE, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. OBAMA, Ms. MIKULSKI, and 

Mr. SCHUMER) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

A BILL

To provide for full voting representation in Congress for 

the citizens of the District of Columbia, and for other 

purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Taxation Without 

5 Representation Act of 2005’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds the following: 
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1 (1) The residents of the District of Columbia 

2 are the only Americans who pay Federal income 

3 taxes and who have fought and died in every Amer4 ican war but are denied voting representation in the 

5 House of Representatives and the Senate. 

6 (2) The residents of the District of Columbia 

7 suffer the very injustice against which our Founding 

8 Fathers fought, because they do not have voting rep9 resentation as other taxpaying Americans do and are 

10 nevertheless required to pay Federal income taxes 

11 unlike the Americans who live in the territories. 

12 (3) The principle of one person, one vote re13 quires that residents of the District of Columbia are 

14 afforded full voting representation in the House and 

15 the Senate. 

16 (4) Despite the denial of voting representation, 

17 Americans in the Nation’s Capital are third among 

18 residents of all States in per capita income taxes 

19 paid to the Federal Government. 

20 (5) Unequal voting representation in our rep21 resentative democracy is inconsistent with the found22 ing principles of the Nation and the strongly held 

23 principles of the American people today. 
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1 SEC. 3. REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS FOR DISTRICT OF 

2 COLUMBIA. 

3 For the purposes of congressional representation, the 

4 District of Columbia, constituting the seat of government 

5 of the United States, shall be treated as a State, such that 

6 its residents shall be entitled to elect and be represented 

7 by 2 Senators in the United States Senate, and as many 

8 Representatives in the House of Representatives as a simi9 larly populous State would be entitled to under the law. 

10 SEC. 4. ELECTIONS. 

11 (a) FIRST ELECTIONS.— 

12 (1) PROCLAMATION.—Not later than 30 days 

13 after the date of enactment of this Act, the Mayor 

14 of the District of Columbia shall issue a proclama15 tion for elections to be held to fill the 2 Senate seats 

16 and the seat in the House of Representatives to rep17 resent the District of Columbia in Congress. 

18 (2) MANNER OF ELECTIONS.—The proclama19 tion of the Mayor of the District of Columbia re20 quired by paragraph (1) shall provide for the holding 

21 of a primary election and a general election and at 

22 such elections the officers to be elected shall be cho23 sen by a popular vote of the residents of the District 

24 of Columbia. The manner in which such elections 

25 shall be held and the qualification of voters shall be 
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1 the same as those for local elections, as prescribed 

2 by the District of Columbia. 

3 (3) CLASSIFICATION OF SENATORS.—In the 

4 first election of Senators from the District of Colum5 bia, the 2 senatorial offices shall be separately iden6 tified and designated, and no person may be a can7 didate for both offices. No such identification or des8 ignation of either of the 2 senatorial offices shall 

9 refer to or be taken to refer to the terms of such 

10 offices, or in any way impair the privilege of the 

11 Senate to determine the class to which each of the 

12 Senators elected shall be assigned. 

13 (b) CERTIFICATION OF ELECTION.—The results of 

14 an election for the Senators and Representative from the 

15 District of Columbia shall be certified by the Mayor of 

16 the District of Columbia in the manner required by law. 

17 The Senators and Representative elected shall be entitled 

18 to be admitted to seats in Congress and to all the rights 

19 and privileges of Senators and Representatives of the 

20 States in the Congress of the United States. 

21 SEC. 5. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MEMBERSHIP. 

22 (a) IN GENERAL.—Upon the date of enactment of 

23 this Act, the District of Columbia shall be entitled to 1 

24 Representative until the taking effect of the next reappor25 tionment. Such Representative shall be in addition to the 
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1 membership of the House of Representatives as now pre2 scribed by law. 

3 (b) INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP OF HOUSE OF REP4 RESENTATIVES.—Upon the date of enactment of this Act, 

5 the permanent membership of the House of Representa6 tives shall increase by 1 seat for the purpose of future 

7 reapportionment of Representatives. 

8 (c) REAPPORTIONMENT.—Upon reapportionment, 

9 the District of Columbia shall be entitled to as many seats 

10 in the House of Representatives as a similarly populous 

11 State would be entitled to under the law. 

12 (d) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DELEGATE.—Until the 

13 first Representative from the District of Columbia is seat14 ed in the House of Representatives, the Delegate in Con15 gress from the District of Columbia shall continue to dis16 charge the duties of his or her office.

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