How does Congresswoman Norton vote on legislation?
Congresswoman Norton does not vote on final passage of legislation but can vote on amendments in the Committee of the Whole. Some of her “yea” votes were: to prohibit workplace discrimination against gay, lesbian, and bisexual workers, support for hydropower energy, more funding for victims of crimes, more funding to create 100,000 new housing vouchers, increase funding to combat domestic violence, require all light bulbs purchased by the federal government to be “energy star compliant. Some of her “nea” votes were: against eliminated summer work programs for teenagers, an amendment that would have undermined green building standards, retaining the ban on D.C. funding for needle exchange after she got appropriators to remove the rider, reducing student financial aid, imposing a seven year-limit on Section 8 housing, cutting federal funding for Amtrak, eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and eliminating AmeriCorp public service program.
