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DC Voting Rights Coalition To Tell Senate Allies Not to Bargain Away Local Autonomy
For more information contact: James Jones, Communications Director
202.462.6000 x12 office / 202.557.4864 mobile / jjones@dcvote.org
March 28, 2011
Will Senate democrats sell-out DC to reach a budget deal with House Republicans? Fifty years to the
day that District residents were finally granted a vote in presidential elections, the DC Voting Rights Coalition
will lead supporters to Senate offices to highlight the progress that still remains to be made.
The House has passed a budget bill that would prohibit the District of Columbia from using local tax dollars
on public programs for AIDS prevention and access to reproductive health care.
In scheduled meetings with staffers, the Coalition will aim to discourage Senators from bargaining away District
autonomy. DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton will meet with the group during a breakfast briefing before the meetings begin.
- Date: Tuesday, March 29
- Time:
- 8:30-9:30 AM Continental Breakfast and Remarks from Delegate Norton
- 9:30 AM-12:30 PM Senate Office Visits
- Where: The United Methodist
Building, 100 Maryland Avenue NE, Room 1 & 2
Meetings are scheduled in the offices of these Senators, among others:
- Mark Kirk (R-IL)
- Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
- Susan Collins (R-ME)
- Thad Cochran (R-MS)
- Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
- Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
- Mark Begich (D-AK)
- Christopher Coons (D-DE)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- John Kerry (D-MA)
- Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
- Robert Casey (D-PA)
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