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Norton Says DC Vote Depends On Speaker
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WTOP Radio & Online (DC) |
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Monday, January 3, 2005 |
For the 10th straight year, the District's chance for voting rights hangs in the balance. The city's delegate is pushing for it again, but says don't hold your breath.
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton says House Speaker Dennis Hastert holds all the cards because he sets the agenda of the House Rules Committee. Norton says it would take a change of rules to give D.C. the vote.
But she says Hastert refused to meet and talk about it with her or three D.C. Veterans who came to Capitol Hill Monday to press the issue.
Norton honored the three soldiers for their service in the Iraq war. Twenty-two year-old Emory Kosh says he talked with soldiers from other states who were shocked that D.C. doesn't have a vote in Congress.
He says it's the ultimate insult to fight for democracy in Iraq, then come home and be denied a vote here.
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