Eleanor Holmes Norton: “Yesterday, in their first votes of the 114th Congress, the majority…”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2015

Yesterday, in their first votes of the 114th Congress, the majority used their first vote to eliminate the vote in the Committee of the Whole of the residents of your Nation's Capital. That vote on some, but certainly not all, matters had been approved by the Federal courts. The District of Columbia has used this vote in three Congresses, but not when Republicans controlled. With their large majority, Republicans showed themselves to be small in principle when they voted to eliminate the vote of D.C. citizens, who pay the highest Federal taxes per capita in the Nation. ____________________

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Eleanor Holmes Norton

Democratic · District of Columbia

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Jan 7, 2015

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