Below The Beltway

With a Democrat in the White House, and the Democrats with even larger majorities in both Houses of Congress, the odds of the effort to give the District of Columbia a vote in the House of Represenatives would seem to be on the verge of unfortunate success.
Which means that it’s a perfect time for the [...]

Today, Senate Democrats failed to round up the sixty votes needed to move the legislation forward:
Republican lawmakers today blocked the Senate from taking up the D.C. vote bill, dealing a major blow to the District’s most promising effort in years to get a full member of Congress.
The vote was merely on whether to begin action [...]

On Tuesday, the bill that would give the District of Columbia voting representation in Congress faces it’s toughest test yet:
For the first time in almost 30 years, the full Senate plans to take up the D.C. voting-rights issue in a showdown Tuesday that could either give the legislation a strong push or kill it for [...]

The vote to give the District of Columbia a vote in the House of Representatives will face it’s first test on the Senate floor on Tuesday:
The Senate will decide Tuesday whether to take up the D.C. voting rights bill, holding a technical vote that could determine the measure’s fate, officials said yesterday.
The vote will be [...]

The bill to give the District of Columbia a vote in Congress is back:
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid hopes to bring the D.C. voting-rights bill to the floor for a crucial vote the week of Sept. 17, his spokesman said yesterday.
Supporters celebrated the announcement, saying they think the measure, which would give the District [...]

In what can only be taken as and admission of near defeat, Senate Democrats have announced that any vote on the bill to give the District of Columbia a vote in Congress will not make it to the Senate floor before the summer recess:
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid said yesterday that he would not [...]

As Congress’s August recess quickly approaches, it seems unlikely that anything will happen before then to the bill currently before the Senate to give the District of Columbia voting representation in Congress:
Key lawmakers said yesterday that the Senate probably will not take up the D.C. vote bill before its summer break, dealing a blow to [...]

The Cato Institute’s William Niskanen write in the D.C. Examiner today about the efforts to give the District of Columbia a vote in Congress and advocates an idea that I’ve written favorably about in the past:
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - For some years now, District of Columbia officials have bemoaned our lack of full [...]

Advocates of the effort to give the District of Columbia a vote in the House of Representatives are looking at the Senate math, and it doesn’t look good:
Advocates of a D.C. voting rights bill are stepping up their lobbying in the Senate, hoping to lock up commitments from a crucial group of lawmakers to ensure [...]

A bill that would give the District of Columbia voting rights in the House of Representatives made it out of a Senate Committee today and is headed for a test on the floor of the Senate:
The D.C. voting-rights bill was approved yesterday by a Senate committee, clearing the way for a vote by the entire [...]