D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced two bills that would give the city voting representation on Capitol Hill.
One bill introduced Wednesday would give the District two U.S. senators and a House member. The other would give the city just a House member.
Norton also introduced a bill last week that would make the District the nation's 51st state.
None of the bills is expected to go anywhere in the Republican-led house. The voting-rights bills have several co-sponsors, all of them Democrats.
The District came close to getting a voting House member in 2009, but House Democrats decided not to bring it up for a vote because of an amendment that would have struck down the District's strict gun control laws.
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