House committee moves to block D.C.’s assisted-suicide law

...Rep. Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, the committee’s ranking Democrat, accused Republicans of ignoring the will of democratically elected leaders in a metropolis of 680,000. D.C. has more residents than Vermont or Wyoming but no voting representation in Congress...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/2017/02/13/826001a2-f208-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html