White House Opposes D.C. Vote - washingtonpost.com
We again see how the Bush White House doesn't honestly give a damn about people's right to vote.
All the care about is a new seat in Congress that will be created in a heavily Democratic favored district.
My thought on this, isn't that the entire country at this point?
It really seems like reality or news of the GOP led Congress's buttwhipping in recent elections have failed to reach the White House yet.
Hello. constitution, big time tea party, no taxation without representation.
Remember any of this people?
The White House declared its opposition yesterday to a bill that would give the District its first full seat in the House of Representatives, saying it is unconstitutional, and a key Senate supporter said such concerns could kill the measure.
"The Constitution specifies that only 'the people of the several states' elect representatives to the House," said White House spokesman Alex Conant. "And D.C. is not a state."
He declined to say whether President Bush would veto the bill, but the White House appeared to be sending a message to Congress just as momentum for the measure was building. It cleared two House committees this week, and the Democratic leadership has vowed to pass it on the House floor next week.
The bill seeks to increase the House permanently to 437 seats, from 435. In a bipartisan compromise, one seat would go to the overwhelmingly Democratic District, which has a nonvoting delegate in the House. The other would go to the next state in line to pick up a seat based on the 2000 Census: Utah, which leans Republican.
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