DC Voting Rights
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Might Clinton, Biden, Derail D.C. Vote Bill?
THE LAST SITTING SENATOR to be elected president was John F. Kennedy in 1960. Since then, plenty have tried and all have failed.
This year, the ambitions of senators could end up ruining the one good shot legislation to give the District a full and equal vote in the House has at surviving a vote in the full U.S. Senate.
Why? Potential supporters, such as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, could be somewhere out on the 2008 campaign trail rather than on the Senate floor.
As The Post's Mary Beth Sheridan reports, an initial Senate vote on the D.C. voting rights bill is slated for Tuesday:
posted by Bruce Johnson @ 9:41 PM
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You got the blogs mixed up. That post was from The Express, for anyone who went to the DCist.com in search of that article. Reading this here, I was almost afraid that they had come out against the measure, as I feel it is a travesty that the legislative body that has so much control over DC affairs has no meaningful advocate for DC on it (no offense to Ms. Norton, but she is as powerless as the unofficial "Shadow Senators" that exist for DC). I'm glad it is not that, but I hate that a consequence of the early campaign is that this legislation (and quite honestly, all legislation) is secondary to campaigning...
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