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Eleanor Holmes Norton: How much more contempt can you show for the citizens who live in the Nation's Capital? If the Republicans are going to…

On the recordApril 7, 2011
How much more contempt can you show for the citizens who live in the Nation's Capital? If the Republicans are going to require Members to cite the Constitution in introducing legislation, I ask them to stop tearing up the Constitution and throwing it in the faces of the American citizens who live in the Nation's Capital.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia
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Apr 7, 2011

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