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Eleanor Holmes Norton: the bill not only prohibits the D.C. government from enforcing its LGBTQ antidiscrimination law

On the recordJuly 11, 2016
the bill not only prohibits the D.C. government from enforcing its LGBTQ antidiscrimination law
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton criticizes a bill that undermines D.C.'s LGBTQ protections.

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