One vote in the U.S. House is not nearly enough for a coalition of activist groups that led their own marches Monday to demand D.C. statehood.

While Mayor Adrian Fenty led thousands of residents up Pennsylvania Avenue in a coordinated voting rights march, the Stand Up! for Democracy in D.C. Coalition and the D.C. Statehood Green Party, among others, sought to make a point of their own: The bill now under consideration by Congress is wholly inadequate.