After passing the House and getting a hearing in the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee last week, The D.C. Voting Rights Act moves to the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow. The committee has scheduled a full hearing on Wednesday called “Ending Taxation Without Representation: The Constitutionality of S.1257,” which will address, natch, the constitutionality of the bill. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, is a supporter of…

President George W. Bush today formally declared his intention to veto legislation that would grant the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives. In a Statement of Administration Policy released by the Office of Management and Budget, the Bush administration stated that “the bill violates the Constitution’s provisions governing the composition and election of the United States Congress” and that any congressional endorsement would be swiftly vetoed. The statement quoted the section of…

But of course! Something else has come between the District and its voting rights. Today the Post is reporting that President George W. Bush and various senators have expressed concerns over the constitutionality of legislation that would grant the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives. According to the White House the legislation, which passed two House committees this week and may face a vote before the House as early as next week,…

We District residents, long used to getting our hopes up a little only to end up with the shaft, need to weather a little more rain on our voting rights parade. The non-partisan Congressional Research Service released a report yesterday last week that says that legislation to give the District a vote in the House of Representatives is probably unconstitutional. But the actual wording in the report’s conclusion is peculiarly vague and couched in the…

Though the District continued its slow crawl back to normalcy after Tuesday night’s ice storm, hundreds of District residents and supporters fanned out in Congress to lobby for legislation that would grant the city a voting seat in the House of Representatives. Part of a lobby day sponsored by D.C. Vote, the almost 400 residents divided up into 50 teams and aimed to visit every member of the House, bringing with them a simple message…

This coming Thursday voting rights activists will fan out in the halls of Congress, hoping to convince staffers and members alike that legislation to grant the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives should be passed, and passed quickly. But they may face a challenge beyond what mere lobbying can resolve — the U.S. Constitution. In an op-ed published in the Post’s Outlook section yesterday, Jeffrey L. Farrow, former co-chair of the President’s…