id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-932 Statehood movement in the District of Columbia - Wikipedia .html text/html 6295 700 67 Since the District of Columbia was no longer part of any state, the District's residents lost voting representation in Congress and the Electoral College as well as a voice in Constitutional Amendments and the right to home rule, facts that did not go without protest.[5] In January 1801, a meeting of District citizens was held which resulted in a statement to Congress commenting that as a result of the impending Organic Act "we shall be completely disfranchised in respect to the national government, while we retain no security for participating in the formation of even the most minute local regulations by which we are to be affected. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-932.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-932.txt