The corridors of Capitol Hill are lined with paintbrushes, ladders and hammers as the 114th Congress moves in to its new digs. Before the dust settles and while good will runs high, D.C. leaders will appeal to the new faces in the Republican majority for greater voting rights. On Tuesday, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton plans to take to the House floor in an effort to win back the District’s vote in the Committee of the Whole, which she had during three Congresses. “I will make the point that in a democracy, the vote can never be tied to the party in power,” she says. “The vote is tied to the people.”
The District’s delegate currently votes in committees but not in the Committee of the Whole, which consists of the entire House of Representatives.
Norton was prudent in complimenting certain Republicans who, in the past, were supportive or open to greater voting rights for the District.
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