The 600,000 or so residents of the nation’s capital do not have a voting representative in Congress.

作为美利坚合众国的首都，华盛顿特区大约60万居民在国会没有一个投票代表。

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The Fourteenth Amendment, proposed by Congress in 1866, was meant to insure the safety and the basic rights of the Southern states' black residents.

1866年国会提出第十四修正案的目的旨在确保南方各州黑人居民的安全及保障他们的基本权利。

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The 600,000 or so residents of the nation's capital do not have a voting representative in Congress.

作为美利坚合众国的首都，华盛顿特区大约60万居民在国会没有一个投票代表。

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It is, however, very unlikely the courts would strike down any effort by Congress to prohibit illegal residents from working or obtaining welfare benefits, including federal efforts to solicit or entice the states to cooperate in such efforts through the use of federal grants and mandates.

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Three Obama administration officials have told Congress that efforts by terrorists to recruit US residents are causing new national security threats.

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The year before, Congress passed a law that terminated many tax benefits of foreign trusts established by U.S. residents, treating them more like domestic trusts.

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