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Article: DNC Commemorates Emancipation Day and Calls for DC Voting Rights
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- April 16, 2007
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The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release:
Today, as the District of Columbia celebrates the abolition of slavery in the Nation's Capital, residents will also rally together to call on Congress and President Bush to give DC full voting rights in the House of Representatives. The District of Columbia remains the only place in the country whose tax-paying residents do not have voting representation in the United States Congress. Instead of working to remedy this inequality, the Bush Administration has threatened to veto a bill to give DC voting rights in the House.
Today's march, the largest ever of its kind, follows news reports last week that Bush appointees at the ...