
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Snowe/Collins vote to give DC a seat
Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins voted last week to give Washington D.C. a representative in the U.S. House.
Snowe and Collins were two of only six Republicans to support the measure. The New York Times reports that a similar bill is certain to pass the House and that President Barack Obama has indicated he will sign it.
However, the measure will end up in court as part of a Constitutional battle over whether DC can be granted a representative even though it is not a state.
The Senate version also gave Utah another seat, which would increase the size of the House from 435 to 437.
Did Snowe and Collins do the right thing?
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