Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

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.

Context

Norton criticizes a bill for threatening LGBTQ rights and D.C.'s sovereignty.

07/11/2016

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