No city intersection is closer literally and figuratively to Washington, D.C.’s power center than the junction of 16th Street and K Street.

The former is responsible for the resonant address of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., otherwise known as the White House. The latter, not wholly admirably but rooted in the First Amendment right of citizens to petition their government, is the locus of the lobbying industry that shapes legislation.

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