But it does not have a voting representative in Congress.
The Congress runs the city's affairs - even dictates how its tax dollars are spent - but denies it a voting representative in the body.
The Steering Committee is made up of one voting representative from each member nation and an elected chairman.
Meetings are composed of one voting representative (called a Commissioner) from each state party who may be accompanied by experts and advisors.
The accrediting body, whose voting representatives are college presidents, is not interested in taking away accreditation, particularly from a major institution.
The tenth trustee is a voting, student representative.
But its elected officials have no real power and the city is denied a voting representative in Congress.
And the District is denied a voting representative in the same Congress that rules on its affairs.
For every 100 soldiers, there is now a voting representative.
But the most often-used argument for statehood is that residents have no voting representative at the Federal level.