[newheart]

1. The Utah seat in exchange for a DC seat is ridiculous on the face of it. The missionaries should have been counted already, just like the military. Apples and oranges.

2. The Constitution is clear. States make the call, not the House. And DC is not a state.

3. That being said, I wonder how many of us would be in favor of it (through Constitutional means, of course) if DC were a pocket of conservatism rather than the far left stronghold that it is now.

In principle I agree that American citizens should be represented. (Not that most really are.)

[muawiyah]

You get your state and we get our state ~ that's how the Democrats handled slavery before the Civil War.

It's just more of the same old playbook ~ the Missouri Compromise didn't work then and it won't work now.

[oldbill]

In principle I agree that American citizens should be represented.

So Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, and American Samoa should have congressmen (6 for P.R.) and two Senators each?