Who Votes to Eliminate Votes in a Democracy?
January 7, 2015
By Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
In their first vote of the 114th Congress, the majority used their first votes 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. We have 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.