After next week, Washington’s wheels will grind to a sudden month-long halt as members of Congress leave the city for their traditional August recess. Armed with that deadline, voting rights activists are making a last-minute push in the U.S. Senate.

When we last checked, legislation to grant the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives was ready to be debated on the floor of the Senate, though supporters of the bill admitted to having only 51 confirmed votes in its favor. Since then, more senators have jumped on-board, though the measure is still three votes short of the number needed to head off a filibuster. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has asked Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for a vote before August 3, and voting rights activists will know in the next few days if they have the votes to move forward or not.

Hoping to avoid pushing the debate over District voting rights into September, D.C. Vote is organizing a National Call-In Day for Voting Rights tomorrow. Anyone can call 1-866-346-3008 toll-free between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., where they will be offered some handy talking points and be patched through to their senators. Not having our own senator to pester, District residents will go straight to Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). The folks at D.C. Vote will also be holding a rally on Wednesday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in front of the Hart and Dirksen Senate Office Buildings.

And if none of this works, we’re confident that Sen. Reid will organize another of those all-night debate-a-thons with cots, cold pizza and a cranky Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.) making even less sense than he does during normal working hours.

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