; Whereas residents of the District of Columbia, including active duty servicemembers, National Guard members, reservists, and veterans, are denied full voting representation in the House of Representatives and the Senate; and Whereas Congress should pass H.R. 1291 and S. 1278, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, which would grant full and equal voting representation as well as democratic control over local affairs to the District of Columbia by making it the 51st State and which has a record 159 cosponsors in the House and 24 in the Senate: Now, therefore, be it