Supporters Push Senate for D.C. Voting Rights
posted 4:33 pm Mon September 17, 2007 - Washington
Lawmakers are expected to decide Tuesday whether the bill should advance to the Senate floor for debate and a later vote.
A news conference in front of the Dirksen Senate Office Building was attended by Mayor Adrian Fenty, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and former Republican congressman Jack Kemp, of New York. They were joined by dozens of activists holding signs that read "I Demand the Vote."
Kemp urged his fellow Republicans to "vote your conscience. Vote the American way. Get on the right side of history."
D.C. voting rights advocates call the issue the most important civil rights struggle of the day. Opponents of the measure argue the Constitution expressly limits House representation to states, and the district is not a state.
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