Ahead of Rules Committee Consideration, Norton Condemns Bill to Repeal D.C. Voting Law
The bill will be before the Rules Committee today at 4:00 p.m. and the House is expected to vote on the bill Thursday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ahead of today’s Rules Committee consideration of a bill by Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) to prohibit D.C. residents who are not citizens from voting in local D.C. elections, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that D.C. residents are capable of governing their own local affairs without interference from members of Congress who weren’t elected by D.C. D.C.’s Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act, which allows noncitizens to vote in local D.C. elections, was passed by the D.C. Council in 2022.
"D.C. laws are matters for the duly elected D.C. Council and mayor, not unaccountable members of Congress who do not represent D.C. residents. The almost 700,000 D.C. residents are worthy and capable of governing their own local affairs,” Norton said. “Despite these constant attacks on D.C. election laws, congressional Republicans have refused to do the one and only thing D.C. residents have asked them to do about elections in D.C.: to give D.C. residents voting representation in the House and Senate, as well as full control over their local affairs, by passing my D.C. statehood bill.”
Approximately 50 bills with anti-D.C. provisions have been introduced in the House and Senate this Congress.
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