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Originally Posted by Emmerich
The Constitution spells out in detail how D.C. is handled. You would need an amendment to change that, although the Congress thinks it can do it through legislation.
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That sounds right to me. Others, including Ken Starr (!), believe otherwise. Either way, we need to make the change.
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The solution is to shrink the District to the area encompassing the Federal buildings and making the rest part of maryland, where they will have Senate seats and House seats. The district was originally carved out of Maryland.
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I don't see why that is better than giving Americans living in DC the same rights as other Americans.
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This only comes up when Dems are in power because the District is a Dem stronghold and increasing Dem headcount in congress is the goal, not because they think those people are not represented.
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You are dead wrong. I'm sure that vote counts motivate many Democrats, but that is not the only reason people advocate for the Americans living in DC to have full voting representation in Congress.