; Whereas almost 200,000 District of Columbia residents have served in the military since World War I; Whereas Congress should pass H.R. 51 and S. 631, 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 the District the 51st State; and Whereas the Washington, D.C. Admission Act has a record 204 cosponsors in the House and a record 32 cosponsors in the Senate: Now, therefore, be it