Issue Position: Norton Ready to Protect Home Rule Victories Allowing D.C. to Spend Local Funds As It Chooses

Issue Position

Following years of work, Norton scored a historic home rule victory in 2009 with the elimination of the last and most harmful anti-home rule riders, marking the first time that the D.C. appropriations bill passed without any anti-home rule riders. During her four years in the congressional majority, she moved one by one to eliminate prohibitions on the use of local D.C. funds for needle exchange programs, medical marijuana, and abortions for low-income women. However, intent on violating the city's self-government prerogatives, Republicans tried, but failed, to re-impose the needle exchange rider, and are likely to try to re-impose the riders again next term.

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