D.C. may get vote in House

WASHINGTON – Two centuries after lawmakers arrived in the federal city, a bipartisan group of House members says it’s time to give residents of the nation’s capital a vote there.

The legislation crafted by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., and the District of Columbia’s nonvoting delegate, Democrat Eleanor Holmes, balances the proposed addition of what would be a solidly Democratic D.C. seat with a new seat for Utah, a state that voted 71 percent for President Bush in 2004.

Davis said his House Government Reform Committee would vote on the measure soon, and that Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., would take up the issue.