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BumRushDaShow

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4. She has always been a fierce defender of progressives and civil rights
Thu Jun 26, 2025, 11:11 AM
Jun 26

And over the years, just like you now see Stacey Plaskett doing - where she is a similar "Delegate" (from the Virgin Islands) - Norton has been taking on the GOP on for decades. Her biggest effort had been trying to make D.C. a state.

The Delegates can actually sit on and vote in Committees, including a "Committee of the Whole", but can't vote on final passage of legislation - https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R40555

Stacey (like Harris, Obama, etc) is the "bridge" generation -

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