D.C. Council member and GW Law School professor Mary Cheh will meet with White House representatives Friday to implore President Barack Obama to display the phrase “Taxation Without Representation” on the presidential limousine’s license plates.

The Ward 3 council member – whose constituency includes American University, Foxhall and Chevy Chase – and chairman Phil Mendelson will attend the meeting, after the Council unanimously passed an emergency resolution Tuesday regarding the tags, according to a release.

The council has asked Obama to affix the plates for the Jan. 21 inaugural parade.

President Bill Clinton brandished plates bearing the phrase during his second term in office, but President George W. Bush did not during either of his terms.

D.C. mayors must obtain congressional approval to spend tax dollars. The District’s delegate in Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, has the right to vote on committee cases, but not on the floor of the House of Representatives.

Alumnus and Mayor Vincent Gray, Norton and D.C. council members launched a nationwide campaign for statehood last November, which included a centralized website, Metro bus advertisements and pleas to state legislatures for support.

The movement made headway in 1978, when Congress passed the District of Columbia Voting Right Amendment, but only 16 of the required 38 states ratified the proposal. Norton has introduced several bills on D.C. statehood and representation since she entered office in 1991.