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Republicans are finding out the hard way that the only rule is majority rule. The Democratic Caucus is amending House rules to extend essential voting privileges to delegates from the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands, starting in January. The five delegates just happen to be Democrats; angry Republicans are threatening delaying tactics and legal action. D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton says Republicans, "in opposing the vote for some Americans while insisting on democracy everywhere else, look like hypocrites."