206 Years Yielding
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s blog has YouTube footage of two speeches in favor of a resolution that would give the District of Columbia a voting representative in the House. (A 417th representative would also be added in Utah to keep an odd number and, incidentally, partisan balance.) They’re mostly on the dry side, but watch Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton – DC’s nonvoting delegate – when someone asks her to yield her time. That outrage seems pretty real to me, and it’s outrage we all ought to feel.
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Born and raised in Philadelphia. Studied philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, where I made many great friends and met my wonderful wife. We moved back to Philadelphia, where I studied philosophy some more and became a teacher. Online and off, I'm looking for ways that we can be better citizens and build stronger communities.
Thursday, April 19th 2007 at 10:45 pm |
If all of the lawmakers showed that kind of genuine passion and conviction for all of the matters they debate, perhaps the C-SPAN audience would consist of more than just the C-SPAN camera-operators.