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Eleanor Holmes Norton

Efforts have long been underway to eliminate the "Taxation without Representation" status of the Distriict of Columbia in both the Senate and House. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton has been championing this issue for her district during her 18-years as a non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives. SIU Law School dean Peter Alexander interviewed Congresswoman Norton earlier this year when she was on the SIU Carbondale campus to deliver the 2008 Hiram H. Lesar lecture.

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