maybe it is just the house

Is there any movement for statehood or something? I guess that's just life in the VI. Which I would assume, would have its good side - a tropical paradise, no?

be moved by summers end

my residence will be in st thomas which has us voting
just not for president
if i were moving as you did to another country then i could vote absentee

Whenever the Democrats take over the House, they restore the floor vote to the delegates (which usually also pads the Democratic majority by five votes).

Whenever the Republicans take over the House, they revoke the floor vote for delegates.

It's a little screwed up to think that the representation of several million people in Congress can be radically altered on the whim of the party in control, but that's the way it went for a good twenty years when I was watching more closely than I do now.

Those delegates can only vote when the House is meeting in the Committee of the Whole, and then only when their vote has no effect on the outcome (they re-vote without the delegates if their vote does affect it).

They can vote in regular committees though.