After waiting all summer, and oh, nearly 30 years since the last time a D.C. voting rights bill made it to the Senate floor, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has scheduled the cloture vote on S. 1257, the DC House Voting Rights Act of 2007, for Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. But whether the bill has the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster is still unclear, so voting rights activists are asking supporters to rally…

If you work on the Hill you might still have time to run over to the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rm. 342 for the hearing Equal Representation in Congress: Providing Voting Rights to the District of Columbia before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The hearing, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m., will include testimony split into two panels, the first with Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), Mayor…

After a rocky road through the U.S. House of Representatives, legislation granting the District a voting seat in the lower chamber will get its first hearing before a Senate committee tomorrow — and pretty much everyone and their mother is set to testify. In a hearing scheduled to start at 10 a.m. before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, eight witnesses will discuss the legislation that was passed in the House on…

Good chilly morning to you, Washington. Our neighbors to the north have officially got themselves a new rock-star Governor, as Martin O’Malley was sworn in yesterday afternoon in Maryland to the sounds of the Saw Doctors, an Irish rock band that flew from Dublin for the event, and later to his own band, O’Malley’s March, at his inaugural ball. Not that we’re jealous or anything, but does anyone know if Mayor Fenty plays an instrument?…

If you’ve noticed anything unusual in the George Washington University campus, it could be because today marks the last day of the week-long “26th Annual National Conservative Leadership Conference” organized by the Young America’s Foundation. (The other YAF) Their website promised participants would be able to “Learn to identify liberal textbook bias and what to do about it,” and “Meet and ask questions of your conservative heroes.” The heros included Ben Stein, Fox News reporter…

A national bus tour to collect the history of the American civil rights movement starts today in Washington D.C. The tour is part of a project called “Voices of Civil Rights,” an oral history project sponsored by the American Association of Retired People, The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and the Library of Congress. Today, the project launched a bus tour which will leave Washington D.C. and follow the route of the Freedom Rides. The…