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Change is Constant
The city we known at this moment is the result of hundreds of decisions made by the US Congress, local government, businesses, institutions, and DC citizens. Congress holds the most power, because DC's laws and budgets are subject to congressional veto. In addition, the city often serves as a laboratory for the experiments of national legislators. Nonetheless Washingtonians have regularly forced the powerful to heed their preferences. The Historical Society of Washington, DC's collections offer plentiful details of these experiments and their outcomes. The materials explain the present that we see every day, and at the same time often document how that present might have turned out very differently. |