[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 148]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               VOTING RIGHTS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, in their first votes of the 114th 
Congress, the majority used their first vote to eliminate the vote in 
the Committee of the Whole of the residents of your Nation's Capital. 
That vote on some, but certainly not all, matters had been approved by 
the Federal courts. The District of Columbia has used this vote in 
three Congresses, but not when Republicans controlled.
  With their large majority, Republicans showed themselves to be small 
in principle when they voted to eliminate the vote of D.C. citizens, 
who pay the highest Federal taxes per capita in the Nation.

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