Those meddling kids in Congress are at it again. U.S. Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) introduced a bill last week to limit women's reproductive rights ...

President Barack Obama's limos will sport those "Taxation Without Representation" tags, added for the inauguration, permanently. In response to a p...

Although D.C. residents pay federal taxes, fight in the country's wars, and are subject to the country's laws, they have no voting representation in the Congress that imposes those taxes, declares those wars, and passes those laws.

While the executive branch of government doesn't have the direct power to give D.C. residents the representation in the national legislation it has sought for centuries, the president can join other voices championing the call for Congressional representation.

WASHINGTON -- A member of the District of Columbia Council hopes to send a renewed message to the White House about an issue of intense local pride. ...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama carried 91 percent of the District of Columbia's presidential vote in November. But that overwhelming support might over...

TOP 5 FOR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6 1. Vote Find your polling place. 2. Election Night Jam At Kennedy Center Enjoy jazz from Jason Moran & The Bandw...

By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff As House Republican sources express displeasure at the D.C. Council's decision to pursue budget autonomy on its own...

By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff Plans to mark up legislation Wednesday to give budget autonomy to the District of Columbia were derailed after a Re...

WASHINGTON -- One of the few issues the most District of Columbia residents can rally around is the lack of full and equal voting rights. The resident...

By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff The elation that greeted Virginia GOP Gov. Bob McDonnell's announcement last week that he backs giving D.C. control...

Last January, the most incredible thing happened: I received an apology letter from a guy who tried to mug me the previous fall. He wrote the letter o...

WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray and local veterans joined a chorus of voices against the proposed rededication of the city's loc...

Washington, D.C.'s hunger strikers have announced the launch of three new voting rights initiatives to benefit the disenfranchised voters of the natio...

WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia voting rights activists were arrested Friday morning on Capitol Hill in a protest of a congressional measure that w...

WASHINGTON -- Three Occupy DC protesters began a hunger strike for D.C. voting rights, full budget autonomy and full legislative autonomy at 12 noon T...

WASHINGTON -- Adrian Parsons, still wearing the blue bracelet from his arrest Sunday for defending Occupy DC's barn from Park Police, is sitting at Sa...

WASHINGTON -- The trial of eight District of Columbia activists arrested while protesting congressional restrictions on the District's use of funds on...

WASHINGTON -- Eight District of Columbia voting rights activists arrested at an April rally on Capitol Hill will go to trial in the D.C. Superior Cour...

WASHINGTON -- Speaker after speaker invoked the civil rights legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. at the D.C. Full Democracy Freedom Rally and March held ...

WASHINGTON -- Actress Hayden Panettiere will be in town this evening for a fundraiser for the D.C. Statehood Fund, continuing her support for the loca...