By Eddie Zipperer THE WHITE HOUSE recently issued a statement endorsing a bill that would grant statehood to Washington, D.C. It said, âFor far too long, the more than 700,000 people of Washington D.C. have been deprived of full representation in the U.S. Congress. This taxation without representation and denial of self-governance is an affront to the democratic values on which our nation was founded.â The bill (H.R. 51) takes a scalpel to D.C. and cuts away certain federal buildings such as the Capitol, the White House, and the Supreme Court, as well as other federal buildings and monuments. It then sets those areas aside as âthe seat of government.â