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DC Congresswoman Sets Deadline for Voting Bill
December 6, 2008 - 6:07pm WASHINGTON (AP) - D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is urging Congress to pass a voting rights bill by Feb. 12, the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birthday. In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Norton asks Pelosi to push for quick approval of the D.C. Voting Rights Act, which would give the District of Columbia a House seat. Norton says she got the idea of using Lincoln's birthday as a deadline from Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. The voting rights bill passed in the House last year and would have added a temporary at-large seat for Republican-leaning Utah. But the bill stalled in the Senate. Norton says now that the Senate has gained six Democratic seats, she hopes both houses in Congress will approve the bill. |
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