D.C. Gets Voting Rights…Spooky

Ronald Reagan is the ghost in this story… okay maybe not.

So here’s the deal. Washington D.C. has had a representative in the house for a while, but they didn’t have a vote. They would just sit there, occasionally throw out an argument, or perhaps even a piece of legislation, and show up on The Colbert Report a lot. However, today that all changed (sans the Colbert comment). The DC Voting Rights Act passed through the Senate on a vote of  62-34.

The only argument against it is that it’s not quite constitutional. DC, last time I checked, is not a state. At the same time, to deny voting rights to the people living there seems more unconstitutional considering they are still American citizens. There are 34 Senators that have a very literal interpretation of the Constitution apparently… gross.

Via [Congress Matters]