House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries voted against the bill (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
D.C.’s progressive city council passed the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act in 2022, granting non-U.S. citizens the ability to vote in local elections if they’ve lived in the district for at least 30 days.
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Non-citizens can also hold local elected office in the D.C. government.
Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas. (Getty Images)
Frost also argued that it was "highly unlikely" foreign officials would vote in those elections, claiming they would have to "renounce their right to vote in their home country" and because "DC has no authority in federal matters."
But Pfluger, who spoke with Fox News Digital before the vote, was optimistic that it would get at least some Democratic support.
He noted that 52 Democrats voted for the bill when it passed the House in the previous Congress. It was never taken up in the formerly Democrat-controlled Senate, however.
"It’s hard to go back to your district as a Democrat and say, yeah, I want foreign agents to be able to vote in our elections – ‘Oh yeah, it’s not federal elections,’ some may say. But it has an impact on the way the city is run," Pfluger said.
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"This could be Russian embassy personnel, they could be Chinese embassy personnel – a number of folks. It's just wrong. It goes against the fabric of our society," he added.
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Another bill receiving a vote on Tuesday is legislation that would grant D.C. police the ability to negotiate punishments via collective bargaining, and would help shield the capital’s police force from at least some liability by installing a statute of limitations against the Metropolitan Police Department.
That legislation was introduced by Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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