Modern Usage
A similar argument has been used in the United States, mostly by Republican lawmakers, about the District of Columbia, which has no voting representatives in Congress. In 2007, Louie Gohmert said, "I would submit to you that Washington, D.C. is also the only city in the entire country that every Senator and every Member of Congress has a vested interest in seeing that it works properly, that water works, sewer works, and no other city in America has that." When residents began calling Gohmert's office complaining about issues like trash and parking, he told them to speak to local government officials instead.
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