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Published 2/24/2009 at Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation giving residents of the U.S. capital a full voting member of Congress cleared a procedural hurdle on Tuesday and headed toward passage, meeting demands first made by democratic activists two centuries ago.
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