Doug Faunt ([info]n6tqs) wrote,
@ 2009-02-12 09:23:00
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Damn, I'm glad he's not the President.
>The District of Columbia is one step closer to getting representation in the U.S. House. On >Wednesday the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted eleven to one to >support the DC House Voting Rights bill. Senator John McCain cast the sole opposing vote. The >bill would permanently expand the 435-member House by two seats. One seat would go to Washington >D.C. and the other to Utah.

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[info]calimac
2009-02-12 05:58 pm UTC (link)
Best snarky comment on that subject

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[info]minnehaha
2009-02-12 06:20 pm UTC (link)
Utah?

K. [Utah?]

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[info]whumpdotcom
2009-02-12 07:10 pm UTC (link)
Maybe they are assuming the votes will cancel each other out?

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[info]fringefaan
2009-02-12 08:52 pm UTC (link)
That was my guess.

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[info]k6rfm
2009-02-13 06:33 am UTC (link)
I haven't looked at the numbers, but I figured that they wanted to stick with an odd number and Utah as of the last census had the largest excess over the national average in population of congressional districts.

I still don't see how this is constitutional, and I still prefer the "give everything more than two blocks off the mall back to MD" solution.

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[info]fringefaan
2009-02-13 04:00 pm UTC (link)
Hm, I hadn't heard that one before. Looks pretty good on the face of it. (Hadn't known it had ever been party of Maryland, I must confess.)

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[info]k6rfm
2009-02-13 05:38 pm UTC (link)
Look at a map of MD/DC/VA, one that shows counties. You'll see that DC was formed originally by taking a square out of VA and MD, but in the 1840s the VA part became concerned that Congress might abolish slavery in the District and asked to be given back to VA, where it forms Alexandria County.

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[info]ron_drummond
2009-02-12 10:58 pm UTC (link)
There has long been a non-voting representative from D.C in the House. Chances are that a switch to voting representation would require a constitutional amendment, as the constitution refers to representatives only in the context of "the several states".

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