So, for quite awhile now Washington DC has had little actual representation in Congress having a non-voting at-large congressional delegate in the House and nothing more. In a real way this violates the concept of no taxation without representation.
There have been a number of options put forth over the years, including:
The District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act which would have granted a voting member of the House, by no Senate seat.
Outright Statehood was discussed and voted on but rejected in 1993.
In 2003 Lieberman (!) introduced legislation that would have effectively treated DC as a State for representation purposes only.
There was even talk about retrocedeing DC to Maryland for purposes of representation only (DC could vote in MD elections for Senate/reps).
A stumbling block to many of these has been the Republicans protest that since DC overwhelmingly favors the Democrat party it would be unfair to the Republican party to just add DC to congress as it would effectively give the Democrats more power(a piss poor argument IMO), and there was some talk about giving some Western states increased representation in the House to help counterbalance it.
My question, and this was all a lead in for my question to you all, is: If the Democrats do especially well in November will, and should, they finally resolve the festering issue of Congressional representation for the District of Columbia?