WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 The U.S. Senate is expected to decide this week whether to consider a bill that would give Washington, D.C., a vote in the House of Representatives.
If 60 members vote Tuesday to take up the bill -- which would balance a House member for the heavily Democratic nation's capital with an additional seat in Republican-leaning Utah -- it is likely to come to a vote in the Senate, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
However, if the legislation does not make it past the test vote, it will likely founder for months, the newspaper said.
The vote is expected to be close. Almost all the Senate's 51 Democrats support the bill, along with five Republicans, but it also has powerful opponents, such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
The House approved the bill in April.
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