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Monday, December 23, 2002
Sen. Gramm Disses D.C., From The Hill Sen. Phil Gramm’s final act in the Senate was to deny the nation’s capital its own 25-cent piece. Every state is slated to have its own memorial quarter by 2009, which is when the District was slated to have one. But now, the city will have to endure more legislative maneuvering. While the House voted to grant D.C. its own quarter, the effort stalled in the Senate because the motion did not get the required 67 signatures. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the district’s non-voting Democratic House member, and D.C. advocates, like WAMU-FM's political analyst Mark Plotkin, are up in arms. Plotkin’s “You Take the Cake Award,” given in conjunction with The Georgetowner newspaper, was awarded to Gramm.
DC Metro Action is published by Michael Schlesinger, a 32-year veteran of electoral and issue organizing who is committed to social justice and to increasing participation in the political process.
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