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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

DC and Utah lose bids for additional House seats

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070918/ap_on_el_ge/dc_vote_2

A bill that would have given District of Columbia residents their first-ever member of Congress died in the Senate on Tuesday, dashing hopes of finally gaining full voting rights after a 206-year wait.

Senators voted 57-42, just three votes short of the 60 needed to move the measure forward. The bill would have created two new House seats: One for the city of about 600,000 people and one for Utah, which narrowly missed out on a fourth seat after the last census.

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