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4	4	STSESSION H. RES. 333
5	5	Recognizing the enduring cultural and historical significance of emancipation
6	6	in the Nation’s capital on the anniversary of President Abraham Lin-
7	7	coln’s signing of the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation
8	8	Act, which established the ‘‘first freed’’ on April 16, 1862, and cele-
9	9	brating passage of the District of Columbia statehood bill in the House
10	10	of Representatives.
11	11	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
12	12	APRIL14, 2025
13	13	Ms. N
14	14	ORTONsubmitted the following resolution; which was referred to the
15	15	Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
16	16	RESOLUTION
17	17	Recognizing the enduring cultural and historical significance
18	18	of emancipation in the Nation’s capital on the anniver-
19	19	sary of President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Dis-
20	20	trict of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, which
21	21	established the ‘‘first freed’’ on April 16, 1862, and
22	22	celebrating passage of the District of Columbia statehood
23	23	bill in the House of Representatives.
24	24	Whereas the District of Columbia has been a focal point of
25	25	the Nation’s complex racial history, which has included
26	26	slavery, the Civil War, killings, segregation, and dis-
27	27	enfranchisement, among other violations of civil and
28	28	human rights;
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31	31	•HRES 333 IH
32	32	Whereas, on April 16, 1862, in the midst of the Civil War,
33	33	President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Colum-
34	34	bia Compensated Emancipation Act, which freed the ap-
35	35	proximately 3,100 enslaved individuals in the District of
36	36	Columbia and authorized compensation to their former
37	37	enslavers;
38	38	Whereas, on January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln
39	39	issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which established
40	40	a ‘‘new birth of freedom’’ by legally emancipating mil-
41	41	lions of enslaved individuals in the 10 States of the Con-
42	42	federacy not under Union control, freeing the majority of
43	43	the Nation’s enslaved individuals;
44	44	Whereas the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of
45	45	the United States, which reads ‘‘Neither slavery nor in-
46	46	voluntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime
47	47	whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall
48	48	exist within the United States, or any place subject to
49	49	their jurisdiction. Congress shall have power to enforce
50	50	this article by appropriate legislation’’, was adopted on
51	51	December 6, 1865, and effectively outlawed slavery in the
52	52	United States;
53	53	Whereas the enslavement of persons of African descent en-
54	54	dured for more than two centuries in what is now the
55	55	United States, including the District of Columbia;
56	56	Whereas, in 2005, District of Columbia Emancipation Day,
57	57	commemorating April 16, the date of the signing of the
58	58	District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act,
59	59	was made a legal public holiday in the District of Colum-
60	60	bia to be celebrated annually on April 16;
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63	63	•HRES 333 IH
64	64	Whereas the residents of the District of Columbia pay more
65	65	per capita in Federal taxes than the residents of any
66	66	State;
67	67	Whereas the residents of the District of Columbia, who pay
68	68	the full freight of Federal taxes, serve in the United
69	69	States Armed Forces, are subject to all of the require-
70	70	ments of citizenship, and otherwise have long made con-
71	71	tributions to the life, culture, and leadership of the
72	72	United States, still are denied voting representation in
73	73	the Congress and independence from congressional inter-
74	74	ference in local matters in violation of the Nation’s
75	75	founding principles of no taxation without representation
76	76	and consent of the governed;
77	77	Whereas, on June 26, 2020, and April 22, 2021, the House
78	78	of Representatives passed the Washington, DC Admission
79	79	Act, the first and the second times in history, respec-
80	80	tively, the DC statehood bill had been passed by either
81	81	chamber of Congress;
82	82	Whereas H.R. 51, the Washington, DC Admission Act, has
83	83	189 cosponsors; and
84	84	Whereas S. 51, the Washington, DC Admission Act, has 42
85	85	cosponsors: Now, therefore, be it
86	86	Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 1
87	87	(1) recognizes District of Columbia Emanci-2
88	88	pation Day, marking the anniversary of the end of 3
89	89	slavery in the District of Columbia and symbolizing 4
90	90	the aspirations of the residents of the District of Co-5
91	91	lumbia for the same rights and freedoms afforded to 6
92	92	residents of States; and 7
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96	96	(2) calls on Congress to pass the Washington, 1
97	97	DC Admission Act. 2
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