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Obama Pushes for D.C. Voting Rights
President Obama called Friday for Congress to pass legislation giving voting representation to residents of the nation’s capital.
The House Democratic leader, Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland, plans to bring the measure, called the D.C. Voting Rights Act, to the floor next week for a vote.
In a two-paragraph statement, Mr. Obama noted that April 16, 1862 was the day President Lincoln freed enslaved people in Washington D.C. – nine months before he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a copy of which now hangs in the Oval Office…