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October 17, 2009

D.C. Voting Measure Could Be Added to Defense Spending Bill

CQ Politics, CQ Politics

House Democratic leaders are considering floor action on a proposal to give the District of Columbia a full voting member in the House of Representatives.

The provision would be attached to the conference report on the fiscal 2010 Defense appropriations bill, which is expected on the floor within the next few weeks.

The Democrats would be reprising a strategy they used Oct. 8 when they attached legislation expanding the definition of federal hate crimes to the conference report on the defense authorization bill.

Republicans generally opposed that maneuver and are poised to oppose any other move to grant the nation's capital full representation in the House.

The D.C. voting measure has long been a Democratic priority. A clue to House Democrats' thinking came...

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Related Topics: House of Representatives, Steny H. Hoyer, Kevin McCarthy, Republican Chief Deputy Whip, full voting member, Majority Leader , District of Columbia, California

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