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Issue Position: D.C. Home Rule And Equal Congressional Standing Advanced In 111TH Congress

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2012
Issues: Legislative Branch

Norton's Committee of the Whole vote is again under siege by the incoming Republican majority, Norton voted on many important matters to the city and the nation during the past four years of Democratic control of the House. She got this vote when she came to Congress by offering analysis to the Democratic majority. The federal courts agreed with her position that inasmuch as House Rules allowed her to vote in the committees, it followed that she should be permitted to vote in the Committee of the Whole, also established by the Rules. As a result, she got the District the only vote on the House floor the city has ever had. When Republicans took control, they eliminated the District's vote. When Democrats regained House control in 2007, they restored the city's vote. Norton continues to try to keep D.C.'s only vote from being stripped from House Rules.


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