Sentence examples for votes representative from inspiring English sources

"They've gone from counting votes to looking for votes to now manufacturing votes," Representative John E. Sweeney, Republican of New York, said today.

"I don't think he solved a thing in terms of votes," Representative Charles B. Rangel, Democrat of New York, said of Mr. Obama's speech.

On more than a few committee votes, Representative Frank D. Lucas, the Oklahoma Republican who is chairman of the committee, sided with Democrats and a few Republicans in defeating amendments to cut food stamps even more deeply, including one by Representative Tim Huelskamp, Republican of Kansas, that would have doubled the cuts in food stamps to $33 billion.

But the territory has no voting representative in Congress.

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

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

Puerto Ricans hold American citizenship and can serve in the military, but the commonwealth has no voting representative in Congress.

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

The gun lobby already has poisoned the proposal to let the District of Columbia have a voting representative in the House.

Rather than lose the vote, Representative Erik Fresen, the Miami Republican who sponsored the House bill, pulled the measure and postponed the vote.

Until fairly recently, the inhabitants of the District of Columbia, which is officially a federal enclave, couldn't vote for President, and they have no voting representative in Congress.