Legislative Background
Recent Action on D.C. Voting Representation
For decades, national lawmakers have introduced proposals to grant Washington, D.C., residents voting representation in the U.S. Congress — through either a constitutional amendment or legislative action to treat the District more like a State or to unite it with Maryland, a process known as retrocession.In recent years, a compromise has been considered that would allow the District’s delegate to Congress to be a full voting Member of the House but leave District residents unrepresented in the Senate. D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) introduced such a proposal in the last (109th) Congress, but the measure never came to a…
