Recent polls suggest that almost two-thirds of Americans are dissatisfied with their representatives in Congress. Residents of the District of Columbia are unhappy for a different reason: they have no representative. No senators, either. Currently, the District's congressional presence consists of one non-voting delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton. A United Nations human-rights committee recently said it was "concerned" about the situation. But it is enshrined in the constitution: Congress has legislative authority over the seat of the federal government, and only states have senators and representatives.
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