Congressional Quarterly reports that the D.C. Vote Bill is being put on a fast track in the Senate:
Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, I-Conn., says he plans to have the District of Columbia voting rights bill (S 1257) marked up and delivered to the full Senate by early June.
Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, made the comments during the first Senate hearing Tuesday on the bill that would give the District a full voting member of the House and award a fourth congressional seat to Utah.
The measure has the important backing of Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, but still faces an uphill battle in the Senate, where a number of lawmakers are opposed on constitutional grounds to giving a non-state a full voting member of Congress. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has already signaled trouble ahead.
And, of course, Jack Kemp is sticking his nose into the debate as well:
In written testimony Tuesday, former Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y. (1971-1989), cautioned Republicans about voting against a measure designed to give D.C. residents, the majority of whom are black, an elected House representative. Continued opposition, he said, would confine the party ?to a minority status in perpetuity among people of color.?
In other words, let’s sacrifice the Constitution for political expediency. And to think I actually used to think that Jack Kemp would make a decent President. Boy was I wrong.
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