; Whereas almost 200,000 District of Columbia residents have served in the military since World War I; Whereas Congress should pass the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, which would grant full and equal voting representation, as well as democratic control over local affairs, to the residents of the District of Columbia by making Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, the 51st State; and Whereas the Washington, D.C. Admission Act has a record 223 cosponsors in the House and a record 35 cosponsors in the Senate: Now, therefore, be it