We’re pretty busy following the action in the Senate as it happens, but for those who are interested, the House Judiciary Committee is marking up the House version of the D.C. Voting Rights Act right now (the hearing began at 2 p.m., but they are discussing the bill now). You can stream the hearing live here. Yesterday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.) said he expected to bring the bill to the House floor for a vote sometime next week.

3 p.m. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) has just introduced an amendment that would put off implementing the bill until the next Congress, to wait for the 2010 Census to be taken. The amendment also alters how representatives would be allocated to the proposed congressional district that would be created in the District of Columbia to make it possible for us to eventually have more than one representative, should our population ever grow enough to justify one.