A recent vote in the Senate on whether to allow the District of Columbia actual representation in the House of Representatives -- that is, to allow DC residents a representative with voting power -- ended up 62-34 in favor of beginning to debate the issue.
Utah would also be given another vote, likely evening out the Dem-Rep numbers. (DC's representative will be a Democrat, though I'm not sure which district of Utah will get the extra.)
Senator Lieberman, sadly making a lot of sense (since one wishes one could just dislike him wholeheartedly for mis-representing himself, and us), pointed out what I've been pointing out for a few years: that DC's population is larger than that of several states. Lieberman wasn't quoted in the NYTimes article as pointing out that the disenfranchised potential voters of the District are largely poor and black, though there are vague references to "civil rights issues of the past."
If the District is given a voting representative, I suspect that the medieval torture device that is the DC DMV will have quite a time revamping its license plate design, which currently has as its motto "taxation without representation." But it will be more than worth it, to have the people of the District represented in Congress.
Unless you've got to stand in that DMV line to change your plates.
Then it will be a toss-up.
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i was wondering about this. it took no fewer than SIX (hour long plus) trips to the DMV to get the MCC car registered. but, it would all be worth doing again if it meant i had representation (assuming i still lived in dc, of course . . . )
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