AN EARLY TEST of the courage and leadership of the new Democratic-controlled Congress will come on the question of extending full voting rights in the House of Representatives to the District of Columbia. Legislation to do just that fizzled in the final days of the past Congress as Republican leaders, seized by apathy and deaf to logic, left town without calling a vote. Now it is for Democrats to explain why citizens of the capital of the free world are disenfranchised in the halls of Congress....
As the Democrats Dither
AN EARLY TEST of the courage and leadership of the new Democratic-controlled Congress will come on the question of extending full voting rights in the House of Representatives to the District of Columbia. Legislation to do just that fizzled in the final days of the past Congress as Republican leaders, seized by apathy and deaf to logic, left town without calling a vote. Now it is for Democrats to explain why citizens of the capital of the free world are disenfranchised in the halls of Congress....