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Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Member of the U.S. Congress representing the District of Columbia

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norton.house.gov
Joined March 2009

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    1. Eleanor Holmes Norton‏Verified account @EleanorNorton 13 Sep 2017
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      1/ Up next on the floor: speaking on my amendment to remove GOP rider that repeals DC's budget autonomy referendum. #HandsOffDC

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    2. Eleanor Holmes Norton‏Verified account @EleanorNorton 13 Sep 2017
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      2/ DC’s Local Budget Autonomy Act allows D.C. to spend its local funds, raised solely in DC, after a 30-day congressional review period

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    3. Eleanor Holmes Norton‏Verified account @EleanorNorton 13 Sep 2017
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      3/ Astonishing Repubs are so opposed to a local jurisdiction spending its local funds w/out the approval of a federal body, the US Congress.

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    4. Eleanor Holmes Norton‏Verified account @EleanorNorton 13 Sep 2017
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      4/ Congress loses nothing under budget autonomy. Congress retains authority to legislate on any DC matter, including its local budget.

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    5. Eleanor Holmes Norton‏Verified account @EleanorNorton 13 Sep 2017
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      5/ Budget autonomy has benefits for DC: lower borrowing costs, more accurate revenue and expenditure forecasts, & improved agency operations

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    6. Eleanor Holmes Norton‏Verified account @EleanorNorton 13 Sep 2017
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      6/ DC’s budget is bigger than the budgets of 14 states. The District raises $8 billion in local funds.

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      Eleanor Holmes Norton‏Verified account @EleanorNorton 13 Sep 2017
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      7/ Repeal of DC budget autonomy referendum is not only bad policy; it violates one of our nation's most revered principles—local control.

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        1. Yvonne Z Smith‏ @yzsmith 13 Sep 2017
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          3/3 not vote. today. I call on all friends of DC to call on their Congresspersons to stop the nonsense on DC autonomy

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        1. Yvonne Z Smith‏ @yzsmith 13 Sep 2017
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          I saw you fighting that on the House Floor today.I had no idea of the ignorant arguments made by Republicans & 1/3.

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        1. Yvonne Z Smith‏ @yzsmith 13 Sep 2017
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          2/3 The idea that DC should not be automous because it was in original consttution is like saying women should not

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