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		<ns:title>S. 160: District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009</ns:title>
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		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/C001041" ns1:name="Hillary Clinton" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/D000388" ns1:name="Christopher Dodd" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/D000563" ns1:name="Richard Durbin" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/F000061" ns1:name="Russell Feingold" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/F000062" ns1:name="Dianne Feinstein" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/H000338" ns1:name="Orrin Hatch" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/K000105" ns1:name="Edward Kennedy" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/K000148" ns1:name="John Kerry" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/L000550" ns1:name="Mary Landrieu" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/L000123" ns1:name="Frank Lautenberg" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/L000174" ns1:name="Patrick Leahy" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/L000261" ns1:name="Carl Levin" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/M000702" ns1:name="Barbara Mikulski" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/S000148" ns1:name="Charles Schumer" />
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		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/V000126" ns1:name="George Voinovich" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/S000033" ns1:name="Bernard Sanders" />
		<usbill:cosponsor rdf:resource="http://www.rdfabout.com/rdf/usgov/congress/people/M001170" ns1:name="Claire McCaskill" />
		<ns:subject>Congress</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Members of Congress</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Constitution and constitutional amendments</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Judicial review and appeals</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Presidents and presidential powers</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>House of Representatives</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Elections, voting, political campaign regulation</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>District of Columbia affairs</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Utah</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Congressional elections</ns:subject>
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		<usbill:title>S. 160: A bill to provide the District of Columbia a voting seat and the State of Utah an additional seat in the House of Representatives.</usbill:title>
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				<ns:description>Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S141-142)</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-01-06</time:at>
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				<ns:description>Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-01-06</time:at>
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			<usbill:LegislativeAction>
				<ns:description>Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-11</time:at>
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		<usbill:hadAction>
			<usbill:LegislativeAction>
				<ns:description>Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-12</time:at>
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		<usbill:hadAction>
			<usbill:LegislativeAction>
				<ns:description>Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 23.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-12</time:at>
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			<usbill:LegislativeAction>
				<ns:description>Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-13</time:at>
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		<usbill:hadAction>
			<usbill:LegislativeAction>
				<ns:description>Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the bill presented in Senate.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-13</time:at>
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		<usbill:hadAction>
			<usbill:LegislativeAction>
				<ns:description>Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate by Unanimous Consent.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-13</time:at>
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			<usbill:LegislativeAction>
				<ns:description>Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-23</time:at>
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			<usbill:LegislativeAction>
				<ns:description>Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-24</time:at>
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		<usbill:hadAction>
			<usbill:LegislativeAction>
				<ns:description>Cloture on the motion to proceed to the bill invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 62 - 34. Record Vote Number: 65.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-24</time:at>
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				<ns:description>Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-24</time:at>
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				<ns:description>Measure laid before Senate by motion.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-24</time:at>
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				<ns:description>Considered by Senate.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-25</time:at>
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			<usbill:LegislativeAction>
				<ns:description>Point of order that the measure violates the Constitution raised in Senate.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-25</time:at>
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				<ns:description>By a decision of the Senate the point of order that the measure violates the Constitution was not well taken by Yea-Nay Vote. 36 - 62. Record Vote Number: 67.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-25</time:at>
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				<ns:description>Cloture motion on the measure presented in Senate.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-25</time:at>
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				<ns:description>Considered by Senate.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-26</time:at>
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				<ns:description>The committee substitute as amended agreed to by Unanimous Consent.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-26</time:at>
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				<ns:description>Cloture motion on the measure withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-26</time:at>
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				<ns:description>Message on Senate action sent to the House.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-02-27</time:at>
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				<ns:description>Received in the House.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2009-03-02T14:25:00-05:00</time:at>
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				<ns:description>Held at the desk.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2009-03-02T15:36:00-05:00</time:at>
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