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To: okie01
And, incredibly, Eleanor Holmes Norton doesn't even need the money to run a campaign. As the representative from D.C., she's appointed! And she has no vote!

That's what I thought.

But if she is a non-voting member of Congress, WHY is she the HEAD of a Committee? Especially one that decides how to spend billions of taxpayer money!

26 posted on 09/15/2010 9:10:17 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Liberalism and Patriotism cannot coexist.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I think that Congress must have at least one committee or sub-committee for each member of the majority party, just so they can all have power over a segment of the “community.”


27 posted on 09/15/2010 9:19:25 PM PDT by maica (Freedom consists not in doing what we like,but in having the right to do what we ought. John Paul II)
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To: Cowboy Bob
But if she is a non-voting member of Congress, WHY is she the HEAD of a Committee?

If I am not mistaken, House rules grant Norton a vote in committee. But she has no vote on the floor.

The Democrats recognize her seniority.

33 posted on 09/15/2010 10:42:10 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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