Despite a Few Losses, Norton Optimistic for 2012 Session

Despite a Few Losses, Norton Optimistic for 2012 Session | The Afro-American Newspapers | Your Community. Your History. Your News.: "Following a tumultuous legislative year, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said she is optimistic that the 2012 congressional legislative session will see gains for the District.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives overturned several local D.C. laws, most notably barring the city from using its own funds to pay for abortions for poor women, and taking away the District’s vote in the Committee of the Whole. However, the nation’s capital emerged from 2011 in surprisingly good shape, Norton said in her annual appraisal of the legislative year.
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