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Article: No Veto for Voting Rights; White House opposition should not stop Congress from doing right by the District.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 21, 2007
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IT'S A TOSS-UP as to which is more disappointing about the White
House's announcement of opposition to D.C. voting rights: the
cynical timing or the hypocritical reasoning. Only when legislation
giving representation to the District picked up momentum did the
Bush administration break years of studied silence. Then it used its
supposed concern for the Constitution to justify the continued
disenfranchisement of a city of half a million people.
The House is set to vote this week on a measure that would
increase its membership to 437 by pairing a new seat for the mostly
Democratic District with an additional seat for largely Republican
Utah. That the measure has gotten as far as it has is a ...