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Plan might net 4th House seat
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| Contributor | particleman |
| Last Edited | particleman Jun 28, 2003 12:42pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Salt Lake Tribune |
| News Date | Saturday, June 28, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON -- In what would be a historic remodeling of the U.S. House of Representatives, Utah could get a new fourth congressional seat under an emerging proposal to give the District of Columbia a first-ever vote in Congress.
Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, is crafting legislation to expand the House by two seats to 437, something that does not require a constitutional amendment. One of those positions would be elected by residents of the nation's capital, where the lack of a representative with voting rights in Congress is manifest in the slogan on the district's license plates, "Taxation Without Representation."
The other new seat probably would go to Utah, which lost its bid for an additional congressional seat to North Carolina by a disputed 856-resident margin following the 2000 Census. |
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