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DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton still fighting for district’s statehood
Eleanor Holmes Norton pounds her fist in frustration over her role as a non-voting member of the US Congress. She has endured this second-class status for 20 years. “I’m like any other Representative in the House, or I should say a delegate. The only difference is, I don’t have the…
5 Questions for: Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
Raw Story caught up to Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) shortly before a rally by Democrats from the District of Columbia calling for their community to become an independent state, New Columbia to talk about not only that issue but her run-in with House Republicans regarding her exclusion from testimony…
Republicans block Rep. Norton from testifying on anti-abortion bill for her own district
Update (below): Republicans stack witness panel with anti-abortion doctors The House Subcommittee on the Constitution will stage a hearing on Thursday for a bill that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy in the District of Colombia. And much like the last major Republican hearing on female reproductive rights,…
Rep. Maloney slams all-male Issa birth control hearing
Rep. Carolyn Mahoney (D-NY) appeared on Current TV’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Thursday night to discuss Thursday’s Congressional panel on birth control. Mahoney, like many, was taken aback at the panel’s near-total exclusion of women and its refusal to hear the testimony of female witnesses. Rep. Mahoney and her…
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Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) says President Barack Obama did not have the constitutional authority to order U.S. forces to participate in an attack on Libya. In a conference call with other liberal lawmakers Saturday, Kucinich asked why the U.S. missile strikes were not impeachable offenses, according to two Democratic lawmakers…
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