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Norton, Mayor Gray and DC Vote Joined By Issue Advocacy Leaders Against DC Riders
Press Conference Wednesday, June 8, 3:00 PM
For more information contact: James Jones, Communications Director
202.462.6000 x12 office / 202.557.4864 mobile / jjones@dcvote.org
June 7, 2011
This Wednesday, June 8 at 3:00 PM, DC congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) and DC Mayor Vincent C. Gray and DC Vote will
be joined by national advocacy leaders from a wide range of social-issue organizations in a press conference appealing to Congress to leave the District of Columbia's local laws out of the
federal appropriations process.
The group will release a letter sent to members of the House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, asking them to oppose
riders on the 2012 federal budget that would restrict the use of local District funds. This comes in advance of the Subcommittee markup of the 2012 federal appropriations bill next week, where
DC social-issue riders - including bans on funding for AIDS prevention needle-exchange programs and Medicaid abortion coverage - have been attached in the past.
Press conference details:
- When: 3:00 PM
- Where: Room HC-5, U.S. Capitol
- Who:
- Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
- Vincent C. Gray, Mayor, District of Columbia
- Eugene D. Kinlow, Public Affairs Director, DC Vote
- William McColl, Director of Political Affairs, AIDS United
- David M. Smith, Vice President for Programs, Human Rights Campaign
- Paul Helmke, President, The Brady Campaign
- Donna Crane, Policy Director, NARAL Pro-Choice America
The following groups will attend in support of DC Home Rule, but will not be speaking:
- National Urban League
- ACLU of the Nation's Capital
- Center for Reproductive Rights
- Freedom to Marry
- National Abortion Federation
- African American Ministers in Action
- People for the American Way
- Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington
- National Organization for Women
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