House Democratic leaders are considering floor action on a proposal to give the District of Columbia a full voting member in the House of Representatives.
The provision would be attached to the conference report on the fiscal 2010 Defense appropriations bill, which is expected on the floor within the next few weeks.
The Democrats would be reprising a strategy they used Oct. 8 when they attached legislation expanding the definition of federal hate crimes to the conference report on the defense authorization bill.
Republicans generally opposed that maneuver and are poised to oppose any other move to grant the nation’s capital full representation in the House.
Translation? Democrats want another vote in the House so they attached the slickness to a Defense bill so that when Republicans vote against it, they can say they’re against funding our troops.