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James Norton: “I am not asking for anything special for the District of Columbia. I am asking for what this body has already ceded to…”

On the recordAugust 6, 1998
I am not asking for anything special for the District of Columbia. I am asking for what this body has already ceded to every other district in the country. District residents have decided this question. Cruel consequences could flow, unique consequences will surely flow, if the District does not have the right to spend its own money as it sees fit, the way every other district does. Do not single the people I represent out. I ask my colleagues to not do to District residents what they cannot do to other Americans.
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James Norton
Ohio

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Addressing the rights of the District of Columbia regarding local spending.

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