Posted on 02/11/2009 8:58:36 AM PST by Perdogg
A Senate committee approved a bill today that would give the District its first full seat in the House of Representatives, setting up a crucial vote by the full chamber sometime in coming months.
The Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee passed the legislation 11 to 1 at its first business meeting in the new Congress. The lone "no" vote was cast by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.
It's not clear when the legislation will reach the Senate floor for what is likely to be the key vote on the measure. In 2007, a similar bill died in the Senate after falling three votes short of the 60 needed to head off a filibuster. But proponents believe they are now in better shape thanks to Democratic gains in the last election.
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Call your Senator NOW!!!!!!!!
Kind of bucking up against the foundation of our form of government we refer to as the US Constitution, aren’t they?
They are gonna need a Constitutional Amendment, correct?
Rush admitted yesterday that Bush was not a conservative. He assured us in the first election he was.
Yet another reason why I quit the GOP. Why are elected members of this party so suicidal?
You and me? Yes. The RATS? No.
And the hits just keep on coming...
Just another vote for the RATS. Get used to this all-out effort to corner the voting process.
I wonder how those ‘conservatives’ who stayed home in 2006 and 2008 feel now?
Constitution?
ping
When do Guam, Puerto Rico and Virgin Island get congress critters too?
I don’t know of any who actually did.
Seems like all that needs to happen is DC applies for statehood. Then everything is Constitutionally sound once they become a state.
Thanks for posting. BUMP!
Seems like all that needs to happen is DC applies for statehood. Then everything is Constitutionally sound once they become a state.
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All for the black vote. THAT is all.
But where do we even hope to begin? There are so many similar bills being rammed through, we cannot possibly even slow them down.
And the Amerikan publik are so far gone, they don’t care.
>>The continuing legacy of Bush’s destruction of the republican majority.
Rush admitted yesterday that Bush was not a conservative. He assured us in the first election he was. <<
To be fair, a lot of us thought he was conservative in 2000. And in 2004 the only other choice was John Kerry.
A socialist, totalitarian regime doesn't use a constitution. They just take over everything and the peasants are forced to obey.
Welcome to Oboma world.
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