Clinton Vows To Do "Everything That I Can" For D.C. Voting Rights

Washington D.C. residents, unlike the vast majority of Americans, have little-to-no voting representation in Congress.

It's an issue that has infuriated residents of the nation's capitol, who successfully lobbied to have the words "Taxation Without Representation" added to D.C. license plates.

The issue generally gets little national attention. But as she lobbies for votes in D.C., which holds its primary tomorrow, Hillary Clinton is saying that the city's citizens deserve representation.

"I think this is, as you do, long overdue," Clinton said at the National Council of Negro Women headquarters this morning, according to the Washington Post. "It is wrong that we disenfranchise the people who live and work in this city."

"It is one of the major planks of my campaign to do everything that I can," Clinton added. "We got closer this year than we had ever gotten before, but that's not close enough. We're going to keep trying all during this coming year and then I hope I will have the great honor as president of signing that into law."

As Clinton notes, a deal fell apart last year that would have given D.C. a vote in the House of Representatives. (The deal would also have given an added vote to Utah, presumably to offset what would have been a likely Democratic gain.) Clinton's husband also backed voting rights for D.C., but they did not come during his two terms in office.