There is talk of Utah getting a 4th House Seat due to a potential redistricting plan. If this happens a new election would take place in 2007 and everyone would have to run again.
But I don’t think Utah should get that seat.
I’d like to see Washington D.C. residents get priority for representation first. That’s right. Citizens of D.C. are not represented. They have no senators, no representatives.
Give them representaion first, then we’ll talk 4 seats in Utah.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 
Representation for the District
I don’t have any problem with the residents of the City of Washington being represented in Congress. The simple way to do it is to give the non-Federal government parts of the District back to Maryland. That was done with the Virginia portion of the original 10-miles-on-a-side diamond that was created as the District of Columbia. The Pentagon has functioned just fine within the State of Virginia, and the Capitol, White House, and State Department can do equally well surrounded by Maryland. The city residents will be able to elect a Representative–perhaps be split in two different districts–and will be able to vote for both of Maryland’s senators. They will also be albe to elect the governor and toher state-wide officers, as well as members of the legislature in Annapolis.
It is silly to create an entire State government structure for the City of Washington, with State bureaucracies and a legislature, adding more red tape but neither intelligence nor funding to the City government. Just return the city to a state of normal government.
When the District no longer has residents, the selection of presidential electors will simply become meaningless. The 23rd Amendment (a mistake–the city should have been retroceded instead) will simply become inoperative.
All of the arguments for statehood for the District also apply to both Puerto Rico, to Guam, and to the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas. The population of Guam is comparable ot the District’s! But if the reidents of Guam want full representation in Congress, the most rational approach would be to add Guam to the State of Hawaii! It would be one more island. Guam’s racial composition includes island natives as well as immigrants from the Philippines (much like Hawaii) as well as other Asian nations.