A vote on whether D.C. residents should get full representation rights in the House has stalled, according to the Los Angeles Times. Republicans added a repeal of the city’s gun ban laws, so Democrats acted swiftly to delay the vote indefinitely.
House Minority Leader John a Boehner (R-Ohio) said that Democratic leaders “shamefully exploited a rule to kill debate and postpone the vote indefinitely.” Mayor Adrian Fenty said that there is not support in the city for repeal of the gun laws.
Bush has threatened to veto D.C. voting rights if it reaches him, saying that the Constitution allows only for representation rights of the states. This is because Bush has an immense amount of respect for the constitution, and people who don’t live in states aren’t real people anyway. They also pay no taxes, do not serve in the military, and contribute nothing to us state-dwellers at all. In addition, nearly 90% of them voted for Kerry in 2004.
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23 March 2007 at 7:12 pm
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