{"id":2265,"date":"2007-09-19T14:21:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T20:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/conservative-filibuster-blocks-dc-voting-rights-bill\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T14:21:54","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T20:21:54","slug":"conservative-filibuster-blocks-dc-voting-rights-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/conservative-filibuster-blocks-dc-voting-rights-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"CONSERVATIVE FILIBUSTER BLOCKS DC VOTING RIGHTS BILL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Administration: Watchdogs Gone Wild<\/a> <\/p>\n

ELECTORAL JUSTICE — CONSERVATIVE FILIBUSTER BLOCKS DC VOTING RIGHTS BILL:<\/strong> Yesterday, a majority of senators<\/a>
\nvoted to give Washington, DC residents a full member of Congress for
\nthe first time in its 206-year-history. Yet the 52-42 vote was not
\nenough to overcome Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) filibuster<\/a>. The bill, which was passed by the House on April 19, would also have granted a fourth representative to Utah. “It’s time to end the injustice<\/a>,
\nthe national embarrassment that citizens of this great capital city
\ndon’t have voting representation in Congress,” said Sen. Joseph
\nLieberman (I-CT), a co-sponsor of the bill, before yesterday’s vote.
\nThe Senate’s actions marked the first time the full chamber “had
\nconsidered the D.C. voting rights issue since 1978, when it passed a
\nconstitutional amendment that would have given the city voting
\nrepresentatives in the House and Senate. The amendment died seven years
\nlater after getting approval from only 16 of the 38 states required for
\nratification.” Ilir Zherka of DC vote<\/a>,
\nan organization that supports DC residents’ right to representation,
\nstated, “For the first time in 30 years, we secured the vote of a strong majority of Senators in favor of DC voting rights<\/a>.
\nWe are outraged that a minority of Senators, led by Senators Mitch
\nMcConnell and Trent Lott<\/span>, prevented the majority from voting on our
\nbill.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Administration: Watchdogs Gone Wild ELECTORAL JUSTICE — CONSERVATIVE FILIBUSTER BLOCKS DC VOTING RIGHTS BILL: Yesterday, a majority of senators voted to give Washington, DC residents a full member of Congress for the first time in its 206-year-history. Yet the 52-42 vote was not enough to overcome Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) filibuster. The bill, … Continue reading CONSERVATIVE FILIBUSTER BLOCKS DC VOTING RIGHTS BILL<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}