Posted by Mike DeBonis on Sep. 18, 2007, at 2:47 pm
The cloture vote to bring the D.C. voting-rights legislation to the Senate floor has failed 57-42, leaving the bill unfilibusterproof.
Maybe next time.
Kudos to Mayor Adrian Fenty, who was working the Senate floor throughout the vote. (He has Congressional floor privileges ex officio.)
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