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Article: SEN. LEAHY URGES PASSAGE OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA VOTING RIGHTS BILL
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 26, 2009
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 -- Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., issued the following news release:
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Wednesday urged the Senate to pass a bill to provide voting rights in the U.S. House of Representatives to the District of Columbia. The capital city's lone voice in Congress, a single delegate in the House of Representatives, is not currently permitted to vote. Under the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009, of which Leahy is a cosponsor, the District's delegate would be elevated to a voting member of the House of Representatives, and the state of Utah would receive one additional seat in the House.
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