Congress
« Previous EntriesOn the Passing of Former U.S. “Shadow” Representative Ray Browne
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Raymond Browne, who served as the District of Columbia’s U.S. Shadow Representative from 2001-2007, passed away this weekend at the age of 71. My heartfelt condolences go out to his wife, Barbara, and the rest of the Browne family.
Representative Browne was a tireless activist on behalf of winning congressional representation for the District, and his [...]
DC Voting Rights & the State of the Union
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010DC Vote has been making an aggressive push to get President Obama to address the lack of representation in Congress for the District of Columbia during his State of the Union address. They recently dropped off 41,000 petitions to be delivered to the White House at a Capitol Hill post office. It was a lot [...]
DC Statehood Fund Holiday Gifts
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Order by midnight, December 17th for standard shipping delivery by the 24th!
I have three questions for you:
1) Are you still looking for the perfect holiday gift?
2) Do you like snarky T-shirts?
3) Do you want to support the DC Statehood Fund?
If the the answer was “yes” to any of the above, then look no further as [...]
More on Lifting DC Riders
Friday, December 11th, 2009As I wrote yesterday, DC is finally free to implement laws and spend money on programs related to abortion, medical marijuana, and needle-exchange programs as Congress had stripped away the anti-democratic riders that usurped these aspects of home rule. Here’s a great statement from Delegate Norton on what the lifting these riders in the annual [...]
District Appropriation Bill Clears Conference Committee
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009Good news from the Capitol, the District’s annual appropriation bill has cleared the conference committee with many of the egregious riders being stripped off. The District’s long-standing prohibitions on spending city funds on medical marijuana, needle-exchange programs and abortion will finally be lifted.
Directly from the Senate Appropriation Committee’s web site:
Removing Special Restrictions on the [...]
