The republicans control the house. And that means squat. The democrats control the senate. And if the republicans gain control it will mean squat.
Gas is too expensive to waste driving to the polls so people like Cornyn can keep getting re-elected.
Yesterday’s victory was an important step in our efforts to protect the District’s right to self-government,” the District’s nonvoting Democratic Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton said in a statement Wednesday, taking credit for the win in knocking off riders to the continuing resolution which not only included Massie’s funding cut for gun control measures but also one forbidding D.C. from spending money on a legal marijuana program.
Tell me how funding gun control with federal money gives DC more freedom to govern themselves?
Federal funding ALWAYS leads to federal intervention in local affairs.
Note the present fight over school lunch menus.
If the feds will meddle is something as personal as what you eat for lunch and what you get from your doctor, nothing is safe and nothing is private.