Senate Republicans Kill DC Voting Rights Bill
AP:
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 finally gaining full voting rights 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.







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First Posted: 09-18-07 03:40 PM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:45 AM