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James Norton: “I can understand why the Members on that side don't want to be spoken to directly. Nobody knows what would have been the…”

On the recordApril 19, 2007
I can understand why the Members on that side don't want to be spoken to directly. Nobody knows what would have been the result of that vote. The least of all who know is the other side. One thing we do know is that it was a perversion. It would have been a perversion to even allow a vote about guns, a vote about guns that would have deprived the District of its own right to decide the issue in order to decide whether it should have a vote. The decision therefore to pull the bill was legal and the delay saved the principle that we should be voting on one basic right, the basic right that is before us today in the House Voting Rights Act.
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James Norton
Ohio
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Discussing the implications of a bill related to gun rights and voting rights for the District of Columbia.

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