OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Issue Position: Norton to Introduce Statehood and Voting Rights Bills to Lay Down a Marker for 2012

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2012
Issues: Elections

The Norton in Your Neighborhood Community Conversations, held after the gun amendment forced her to delay the voting rights bill revealed that residents want to discuss various approaches to pursuing their rights, pending changes in Congress that will again open the passage for a bill. Norton, who got almost two-thirds of a heavily Democratic House to support her Statehood bill, in the 1990s, will introduce that bill again, along with the D.C. House Voting Rights Act and a bill for votes in the House and Senate, both of which she has pursed in the past. Norton has already attended a joint meeting with Mayor-elect Vincent Gray, Chairman-elect Kwame Brown, DC Vote and other groups to discuss possible actions to maintain the momentum for voting rights and to prepare for the likely battle to preserve Norton's victory of removing the anti-home rule riders.


Source
arrow_upward