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The Warrior on the Hill
35 minutes Posted Oct 24, 2016 at 5:00 am.
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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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