The NY Times offers this report, which begins: “Republican senators dealt a crushing setback on Tuesday to the District of Columbia’s hopes of gaining its first full voting member of Congress. Although supporters of a bill granting the city representation in the House thought their chances of success were the best in decades, they came up three votes short of the 60 needed to avoid a filibuster. The bill, which failed on a vote of 57 to 42, is not likely to be resubmitted this year.”