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=Senator de Klerk=

A BILL Sponsored by Senator de Klerk and Senator Potts

Be it enacted by the Members of the McG Congress of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

This Act may be cited as the "Grant D.C. Statehood Act of 2008."
 * SECTION 1: TITLE.**

1. To insure that we, the United States, are not contradicting the democracy and the republic that the United States was founded upon and provide the citizens of Washington, D.C. their natural rights. 2. "No taxation without representation," insures a strong voice to every person in the United States. Rather than revoking tax income from the citizens of Colombia, provide Washington with representation. 3. The population of Washington, D.C. consists of approximately 567,000 people, while Wyoming has approximately 493,000. Wyoming has Senate representation and Washington, D.C. does not despite the fact that they have a significant amount of more people in their population. Because states are defined by the area and not the number of people D.C. is currently in a different league than other states.
 * SECTION 2: PURPOSES**

1. Must be a citizen of Washington, D.C.
 * SECTION 3: ELIGIBILITY**

1. The residents of D.C. will be able to vote for their Senator and their Representative. 2. D.C.Senators and Representative will have a real vote in Congress. 3. The Senate will now have 102 members and the House will have 436. 4. D.C. will have the same privileges as the other fifty states. 5. D.C. will not be considered as second-class citizens and not be victims of "taxation without representation." 6. D.C. will not vote as part of Maryland. 7. D.C. residents will not stop paying taxes. 8. D.C. will be considered a state: the population has more than that of the state of Wyoming, with 493,000 residents while D.C. has 567,000.
 * SECTION 4: TERMS AND BENEFITS**