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The Democratic Party Senate Republicans Kill DC Voting Rights Bill: "Senate Republicans Kill DC Voting Rights Bill" Posted by Stephanie Taylor on September 19, 2007 at 04:06 PM Email this Print this Blog this Digg this Senate Republicans defeated a voting rights bill yesterday that would have finally granted District of Columbia residents the right to vote: A bill that would have given District of Columbia residents their first-ever member of Congress died in the Senate on Tuesday, dashing hopes of full voting rights in the nation's capital after a 206-year wait. Senators voted 57-42, just three votes short of the 60 needed to move the measure forward. The bill would have created two new House seats: One for the city of about 600,000 people and one for Utah, which narrowly missed out on a fourth seat after the last census. The procedural vote, against moving on with the debate, effectively killed the best chance in decades to win the District a full-fledged House member. The city has been denied voting rights in Congress since 1801, making it the only major capital city in the world where citizens are denied a vote in the nation's representative body of government. Let's not even go here. The reasons and implications are numerous to list. Posted by J on September 19, 2007 at 05:28 PM Let me change that. It is truly sad that a governing body is so petty thinking and so blatantly uncaring for the residents of the nation's capital. Posted by J on September 19, 2007 at 05:31 PM I heard the Republican argument that DC is not a state and therefore was not meant to have the vote. Maybe they should become a part of Virginia or declared a U.S. State. Posted by Spartacus on October 1, 2007 at 03:00 PM « Hide Comments Comments are now closed for this entry.