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Issue Position: Norton Bill to Reduce Time to Fill D.C. Vacancies Passed in House

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2012
Issues: Federal, State and Local Relations

Norton's bill to amend D.C. Charter to reduce the waiting period for holding special elections to fill vacancies for the D.C. City Council and mayor passed the House. She will reintroduce this bill to avoid unusually long periods when residents are left without representation. Norton's bill, based on legislation passed by the council and signed by the mayor, reduces the waiting period to 70 days. Her bill is necessary because waiting periods are controlled by the District's Charter, which only Congress can amend. This is an example of a bill Norton believes she can get done in the next Congress as part of structural charter reform that Republicans and Democrats believe needlessly take congressional time.


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