A Vote for D.C.? Survey Says ‘Yes’: A new national survey indicates that 8 out of 10 Americans support Congressional representation for the District of Columbia, the Post reports. The poll, conducted by the nonpartisan polling firm KRC Research, surveyed about 1,000 people and has a margin of error of 3 percent. The firm’s president tells the Post that the “current war environment and discussion about spreading democracy around the world has an influence on people’s thoughts when you ask them whether or not people in the U.S. capital should have voting rights.”

Currently, the District has a delegate to the House, Eleanor Holmes Norton, who can vote in committee, but not committee of the whole.

Chesapeake Bay Bridge Walk Scuttled: The traditional May walk across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is being abandoned, because it is “becoming an increasingly expensive burden on the congested span,” the Post reports.

Briefly Noted: Nixon secretary, Rose Mary Woods, dies at age 87 … 3 D.C. school’s didn’t have heat during yesterday’s deep freeze … Did anyone else catch Marion Barry on WJLA’s 11 o’clock news last night? We could have sworn we heard him say that constituents who have been complaining since he cancelled the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march in Anacostia are full of “BS” … Oh, boy. More legislative shenanigans in Annapolis …