Sec. 2. Representation in Congress for District of Columbia
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, effective with respect to the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress and each succeeding Congress, the District of Columbia shall be treated as a State for the purposes of representation in the House of Representatives and the Senate. In the first election of Senators from the District of Columbia, the 2 senatorial offices shall be separately identified and designated, and no person may be a candidate for both offices. No such identification or designation of either of the 2 senatorial offices shall refer to or be taken to refer to the terms of such offices, or in any way impair the privilege of the Senate to determine the class to which each of the Senators elected shall be assigned.
Section 22 of the Act entitled An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for apportionment of Representatives in Congress , approved June 28, 1929 ( 2 U.S.C. 2a ), is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: This section shall apply with respect to the District of Columbia in the same manner as this section applies to a State. . Section 3 of title 3, United States Code, is amended by striking come into office; and inserting the following: come into office (subject to the twenty-third article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States in the case of the District of Columbia); .
Section 4342 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (5); and in subsection (f), by striking the District of Columbia, . Such title is amended— in section 6954(a), by striking paragraph (5); and in section 6958(b), by striking the District of Columbia, . Section 9342 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (5); and in subsection (f), by striking the District of Columbia, . This subsection and the amendments made by this subsection shall take effect on the date on which a Representative from the District of Columbia takes office for the One Hundred Thirteenth Congress.
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