WASHINGTON (AP) -The District of Columbia's delegate to Congress has introduced two bills that would give the city voting representation on Capitol Hill.

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One bill introduced Wednesday by Democratic Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton would give the district two U.S. senators and a House member. The other would give the city just a House member.

Norton also introduced a bill last week that would make the district the nation's 51st state.

None of the bills is expected to go anywhere in the Republican-led house. The voting-rights bills have several co-sponsors, all of them Democrats.

The district came close to getting a voting House member in 2009, but House Democrats decided not to bring it up for a vote because of an amendment that would have struck down the district's strict gun control laws.