Washington, May 5 -- Congressman Tom Barrett issued the following press release:
In case you missed it, Congressman Tom Barrett (MI-07) wrote an op-ed in The Detroit News today, describing how the current trend of redrawing congressional districts years before the next Census weakens American voters' representation in Congress. Barrett urges passage of his Make It Count Act, which would ban mid-decade redistricting and determine future congressional districts based on citizenship.
Last month, Virginians voted to let politicians redraw the state's congressional districts ahead of this fall's midterm elections.
The vote is just one of the latest developments in an all-out political brawl by both Republicans and Democrats to draw new distri...