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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 [...]
Trouble for Colonialist at the Capitol
Monday, November 23rd, 2009I’m a little late in writing about this, but I wanted to make sure I got it into my blog “for the record”.
As you may recall, last week I wrote about a hearing that was taking place on Capitol Hill about the the issue of Congressional oversight “in all cases whatsoever” in local matters within [...]
Greater Autonomy for the Nation’s Capital Hearing 11/18/09
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009There will be a hearing in the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia on the issue of “Greater Autonomy for the Nation’s Capital” at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at the Oversight and Government Reform hearing room, 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.
While the lack of full representation [...]
