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. Main article: Geography of Washington D.C. The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (i.e WASA or D.C Water) is an independent authority of the D.C government that provides drinking water and wastewater collection in Washington WASA purchases water from the historic Washington Aqueduct which is operated by the Army Corps of Engineers the water sourced from the Potomac River is treated and stored in the city's Dalecarlia Georgetown and McMillan reservoirs the aqueduct provides drinking water for a total of 1.1 million people in the District and Virginia including Arlington Falls Church and a portion of Fairfax County the authority also provides sewage treatment services for an additional 1.6 million people in four surrounding Maryland and Virginia counties. Painting of Washington by Charles Wilson Peale standing in a formal pose in a colonel's uniform a right hand inserted in shirt. Columbia General Hospital, Washington D.C. Business Directory, 4.2 Battle of Long Island Representatives introduce a bill while the House is in session by placing it in the hopper on the Clerk's desk. It is assigned a number and referred to a committee which studies each bill intensely at this stage. Drafting statutes requires "great skill knowledge and experience" and sometimes take a year or more. Sometimes lobbyists write legislation and submit it to a member for introduction Joint resolutions are the normal way to propose a constitutional amendment or declare war On the other hand concurrent resolutions (passed by both houses) and simple resolutions (passed by only one house) do not have the force of law but express the opinion of Congress or regulate procedure Bills may be introduced by any member of either house However the Constitution states "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives." While the Senate cannot originate revenue and appropriation bills it has power to amend or reject them Congress has sought ways to establish appropriate spending levels. . However the national government had no money either to pay the war debts owed to European nations and the private banks or to pay Americans who had been given millions of dollars of promissory notes for supplies during the war Nationalists led by Washington Alexander Hamilton and other veterans feared that the new nation was too fragile to withstand an international war or even internal revolts such as the Shays' Rebellion of 1786 in Massachusetts They convinced Congress to call the Philadelphia Convention in 1787 and named their party the Federalist party the Convention adopted a new Constitution which provided for a much stronger federal government including an effective executive in a check-and-balance system with the judiciary and legislature the Constitution was ratified in 1788 after a fierce debate in the states over the nature of the proposed new government the new government under President George Washington took office in New York in March 1789. James Madison spearheaded Congressional amendments to the Constitution as assurances to those who were cautious about federal power guaranteeing many of the inalienable rights that formed a foundation for the revolution and Rhode Island was the final state to ratify the Constitution in 1791.

. . 6.1 New Mexico campaign Seoul South Korea (2006). Colonization movement According to 2017 Census Bureau data the population of Washington D.C was 47.1% Black or African American 45.1% White (36.8% non-Hispanic White) 4.3% Asian 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native and 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Individuals from two or more races made up 2.7% of the population Hispanics of any race made up 11.0% of the District's population. ; Newspaper showing Washington's Farewell Address 11.3 Inspiring all colonies. Many derived income from plantations or large farms which they owned or managed which relied upon the labor of enslaved men and women particularly in the southern colonies: Bassett Blair Blount Davie, Johnson Butler Carroll Jefferson Jenifer Madison Mason Charles Pinckney Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Rutledge Spaight and Washington, from the confluence of its North and South Branches, When the SR-71 was retired by the military in 1990 one was flown from its birthplace at United States Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale California to Dulles setting a coast-to-coast speed record at an average 2,124 mph (3,418 km/h) the trip took 64 minutes the aircraft was placed in a storage building to await display.