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Utah Vote Dies
Published on September 18, 2007 at 04:38PM
Updated on September 19, 2007 at 04:06PM
(WASHINGTON D.C.) – A bill that would have given Utah a fourth House seat and the District of Columbia its first-ever member of Congress, died in the Senate. Sen. Orrin Hatch said that voters in the District of Columbia were once again denied a chance to vote Senators voted 57-42, just three votes short of the 60 needed to move the measure forward. Sen. Bob Bennett was a little more optimistic with Utah getting a fourth seat in the next Census. The procedural vote effectively killed the best chance in decades to win the district a full-fledged House member. The city has been denied voting rights in Congress since 1801, making it the only major capital city in the world where citizens are denied a vote in the nation’s representative body of government.