Norton Hopeful Health Care Resolution Will Clear Way for D.C. Voting Rights

Norton Hopeful that Health Care Resolution Will Clear the Way for Consideration of D.C. Voting Rights

March 15, 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the health care reform bill finally moves to the finish line, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she is pressing to bring the D.C. House Voting Rights Act to completion. The Congresswoman had wanted the voting rights bill on the House Floor in February, but much of that month was given over to a scheduled recess and to the snowstorms. Norton, a strong proponent of health care reform, said that health care, perhaps understandably, has taken front stage over all other issues, not only D.C., but she is anxious to move forward on voting rights.

“We have spent years getting what should have been an easy bill done considering its bi-partisan equivalence with a seat for D.C. and for Utah,” Norton said. “As the April 15 income tax deadline comes hard upon us, D.C. residents are more determined than ever to get congressional representation, the least they are entitled to for the taxes they pay.”

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