(Harrisburg) -- The new boundaries for Pennsylvania’s congressional districts will be voted on by the state House next week. Democrats on the chamber’s State Government Committee unsuccessfully tried to postpone sending the proposal to the House floor. Babette Josephs, the committee’s minority chair, says lawmakers and voters have had too little time to review the proposed districts. "We haven’t seen this map, regardless of the fact that we had hearings," she says. "They were empty hearings." Josephs says meetings held earlier this year would have been adequate, if the newly proposed congressional district lines approved this week by the state Senate were available then. Republican House members say Democrats had plenty of time to field concerns, and they’ve got to finish up congressional redistricting by mid-January. That’s when people running for U.S. Congress have to start collecting petition signatures for their candidacy.