On the recordJuly 11, 2016
This bill is not only an attack on our own LGBTQ community whose rights we have gone very far in protecting, but it is an attack on the sovereignty of the District of Columbia itself.
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congress.govEleanor Holmes Norton: “This bill is not only an attack on our own LGBTQ community whose rights we have gone very far in protecting, but it is…”
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Norton criticizes a bill for threatening LGBTQ rights and D.C.'s sovereignty.
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