This amendment for the first time, effective with the 1964 election, gave District of Columbia residents the opportunity to vote for three presidential electors.

This effectively suspends, for a period of at least four years, the limited "home rule" granted to District of Columbia residents in 1973.

The first voting right that Congress granted District of Columbia residents was for school board members, in 1968.

A Columbia resident since 1980, she was 86 and formerly lived in St. Albans, Queens.

In 2005, students and Columbia residents donated over 5,000 units of blood.

The Government contends that the right for District of Columbia residents to vote for Congressional representation must be won through constitutional amendment.

"It's grown beyond the spirit of what a street vendor is supposed to be doing," said Doug Millis, a longtime Columbia resident.

Masters also frequently hired out slaves to Columbia residents and institutions, including South Carolina College.

Nearly 9,000 families have applied to participate in the program and three-fourths of District of Columbia residents support continuing the program.

And District of Columbia residents will vote on whether homeless people should have a right to overnight shelter.