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All eyes on Washington, and naught but deafening silence from the District's loudest defender

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11 months ago

It was April, 2007. The House of Representatives was debating a bill to increase the size of the House from 435 to 437 Members. Utah would score an extra seat. And the District of Columbia would secure a seat on the House floor.Washington, DC isn’t a state. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., has served as the city’s non-voting delegate to Congress since 1991. And even though she couldn’t cast a ballot on that bill for DC, Norton was in the middle of the debate which teed up the bill.Then-Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., asked Norton if "the gentlelady would yield" during her floor remarks, trying...