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Speaker Pelosi: DC Voting Rights Act

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Uploaded by on Apr 19, 2007

The House considers H.R. 1905, the DC Voting Rights Act, securing voting rights in the House for the District of Columbia. Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks on the floor during debate on the bill.

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  • This video is a fake. Listen closer folks and you'll hear the soundboard cuts. Compare the cut points to her facial, bodily and lip movements to when she's speaking. It's obvious.

  • The Constitution explicitly states that members of congress shall be chosen from the several STATES, and you liberals like to gnore the Constitution. Speaker Pelosi is full of it...

  • If it renounces its status, it goes back to Virginia and Maryland. Virginia and Maryland were nice enough to give us the Capitol and so it belongs to them. But, an Amendment is needed, or we can just not tax residents, or allow them to serve in the military.

  • You missed my point., (I suspect it was on purpose just to raise an argument). As I said (and you ignored) I am fully in favor of DC getting all the rights of any state, I am simply not in favor of running rough-shod over the rule book the way liberals always try to do. DC needs to become a state, or Congress needs to pass a Constitutional Amendment. Not some "end run" bullshit like they do on every other issue. We need a clear rule, not some murky load of liberal BS to resolve the issue.

  • The Constitution gives Congress the right to pass any legislation over DC, and the elastic clause should allow it to pass a law that grants DC a vote in the House. They pay taxes too. Remove those before you deny them their vote.

  • Very true, either the Congress has to pass a Constitutional Amendment allowing an exception to Article 1 Section 2 of the Constitution, or DC needs to renounce it's District status and become a state with all the responsibilities of at state. Unless one of these happens, the DC Voters rights act will be UnConstitutional.

  • i'm sorry but the constitution DOES NOT allow for a DC vote. it CLEARLY states that ONLY states can have representation in congress. pass a constitutional amendment to allow it then this is legal. how hard is that to understand? but again this is the party that circumvents the constitution all the time

  • Speaker Pelosi

    There should be an Act of Congress to lower The Flag at half mast until the Troops come home from Iraq. Will President Veto that too? Keep up the good work!

  • Thank you Speaker Pelosi and the Members of Congress who are taking strides to provide liberties to citizens who are lacking equalities.

  • Me Love you!!!

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