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To: 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.

This is laughably unconstitutional. Under the Constitution, government was specifically to be denied representation.

22 posted on 02/11/2009 9:13:16 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascsim one ruse at a time.)
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To: Carry_Okie

You know what’s even scarier? Lets say we have an election where no one gets a majority of electoral votes. That means the House of Representatives chooses the President. But it isn’t done by individual vote, but by polling each state’s delegation, with each state having one vote.

Does DC get a vote under this bill, as if it were a state? Does the DC rep vote with another delegation like MD or VA? Does he have no vote? I wouldn’t be surprised if this isn’t addressed at all in the bill. I’m definitely going to give it a read as soon as I have time.


135 posted on 02/12/2009 8:44:41 AM PST by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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