DC voting rights victory.
By on Jun 13th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
DC voting rights victory.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today approved legislation that would give Washington, DC a seat in Congress. Sen. John Warner (R-VA) cast the sole dissenting vote.
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Warner is a fascist tool.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:40 pmLike giving heroin to a methadone patient.
June 13th, 2007 at 2:40 pmIt’s about time!
231 years of taxation without representation is quite enough, don’t you think?!
June 13th, 2007 at 2:46 pmWTF Warner?!
June 13th, 2007 at 2:48 pmmore crabs
Bush will twinkle his Vetoes!
June 13th, 2007 at 3:03 pm.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:05 pmAnother compromise bill, great. DC gets one so they can add one to Utah as well????
More whitewashed garbage, why don’t they just give DC a friggin seat and leave it like that? Oh wait pork barrel politics, except not with money, with votes.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:08 pmIt’s about time.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:17 pmAnd PR, and all of our Pacific Holdings? Or just DC?
/rhetorical
June 13th, 2007 at 3:31 pmSenate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee – what is their connection to this issue???
June 13th, 2007 at 3:45 pmOf course, the repugs wouldn’t want a voting Democrat added to the House.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:47 pmLieberman’s support is disingenuous and self-serving.
Did TP write today (I haven’t read all the threads) that the leader of the party in Connecticut has asked Lieberman to leave the party?
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee – what is their connection to this issue???
Comment by Pete Bogs — June 13, 2007 @ 3:45 pm
My guess is it would fall under the “Governmental Affairs” part.
By the way, who would argue that citizens of our nation’s capital shouldn’t have representation in Congress?
June 13th, 2007 at 3:48 pm0
June 13th, 2007 at 4:07 pmIt’s about time! The U.S. Citizens who live within the District of Columbia should have voting representation in Congress.
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June 13th, 2007 at 5:56 pm