Sentence examples for a voting representative from inspiring English sources

The 600,000 or so residents of the nation's capital do not have a voting representative in Congress.

The district continues to be denied a voting representative in the House for its 600,000 citizens.

To his credit, Mr. Kemp was also an early and vociferous supporter of giving the District of Columbia a voting representative in Congress.

WASHINGTON — The Senate approved a bill on Thursday to provide the nation's capital with a voting representative in the House, but it came with a hitch.

Frustrated residents protest that the city's residents pay $2 billion in federal taxes annually but have failed to gain a voting representative in Congress.

Some wanted acceptance of the amended measure because the city's chance for a voting representative was unlikely to occur again soon.

"Take your responsibility seriously and give us a vote!" Representative Maxine Waters of California said: "I am willing to stay here until hell freezes over.

"The handwritten message is one of the best ways to persuade a voted representative," say Woebken and Montgomery.

When the 2010 defense authorization bill came up for a vote, representatives from GetEqual and the undocumented youth movement collaborated to attach both the DREAM Act and DADT repeal to the larger legislation.

Early last year the Senate passed a bill to give DC a full voting representative in the House of Representatives (it already has one who is not allowed to vote, except in committees).

The city came closer to democracy last year until a measure that would have given it a full voting representative was scuttled after the gun lobby attached noxious amendments gutting gun controls in the district.