Opinion: How they voted, abstained, laid low, and hedged

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Got a serious question that deals with governance, citizenship, high hopes, and what it means to be an American? Why not bring it to the world’s greatest deliberative body and whatever it is the House of Representatives calls itself?

We did just that, polling the Golden State’s entire Washington delegation (53 representatives and two senators) for an up-or-down vote on our proposed constitutional amendment allowing naturalized citizens to become president.

Rest easy, California! Fully 43.6 percent of your elected officials were willing to venture a yes or no answer. That’s overwhelming! Or actually, maybe it’s underwhelming. At any rate it’s whelming. Here is the complete roll call, including non-responses and statements from pols who found it easier to make a speech than a decision.

Hey, Detroit Free Press! Have you forgotten the Amend for Arnold and Jen campaign? Your guvnor’s got some foreign-born skin in this game too; let’s see if the Wolverine State’s senators and reps can do any better.