"I have not seen a threat like this since I became a member of Congress," said Norton in an interview with DCist/WAMU. But Norton says there has never been as direct an attack on the city's ability to govern itself as Clyde's bill would be. affairs, including budget provisions that prohibit the city from spending money on specific programs or causes (marijuana legalization, clean needles, and abortions for low-income women among them) ordering the city to hold a referendum on reinstating the death penalty (it failed) and not counting the votes for a ballot initiative that legalized medical marijuana (the initiative passed).
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON FULL
The District currently doesn't have full control over its legislation, and anything passed in D.C. 6 insurrection to a " normal tourist visit" - told the Daily Caller that "D.C.'s unseemly and declining status proves its leaders are unfit to properly maintain our nation's capital." residents gained in 1973 under a congressional bill signed by President Richard Nixon. Andrew Clyde, says he is drafting legislation that would repeal home rule, effectively wiping out the democratically elected mayor and legislature that D.C. if they win the majority, possibly even attempting to abolish the District's elected government and return it to complete congressional control.Īt least one Republican, Georgia Rep. Norton's warnings follow a story published last week in the conservative Daily Caller that laid out plans by senior Republicans - including current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy - to significantly ramp up congressional oversight over D.C. But she is now raising the alarm over what she says are new threats to D.C.'s authority to govern itself, especially if Republicans manage to win back the House of Representatives in midterm elections later this year. Eleanor Holmes Norton has dealt with all manner of congressional challenges to the District's autonomy and local government. In her three decades on Capitol Hill, D.C. Eleanor Holmes Norton celebrated the statehood bill's passage through the House outside the Capitol Building in June 2020. She is the Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit and serves on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.D.C. In her work as the congressional delegate from the District of Columbia, Norton has advocated for greater representation for D.C. citizens and has advanced economic development efforts in the District.
Throughout her career, Norton has been a feminist leader and constant champion of human and civil rights. Following her time at the EEOC, Norton became a tenured professor at Georgetown University Law Center. She subsequently served as the head of the New York Human Rights Commission and was appointed by President Carter to chair the EEOC in 1977. and was the assistant legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union. in American Studies from Yale in 1964, Norton clerked for Judge A. Norton was active in the civil rights movement, organizing and participating in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer. 1964)Ĭongresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton has served as the congressional delegate representing the District of Columbia since 1991 and was previously the first woman to serve as Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Portrait Painted in 1989 Located in the Alumni Reading Room.
0 kommentar(er)
