Washington, D.C., may be the political center of the free world, but its
670,000 residents don’t have a say in the national legislature. What they do have is a
“non-voting delegate” in the House of Representatives. Eleanor Holmes Norton can
introduce legislation and vote in committee, but she can’t vote on the House floor.
Over the course of 13 terms, the so-called “Warrior on the Hill” been fighting to
change that.
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