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Conditions removed from DC budget
Associated Press
12/10/09 5:03 PM EST
WASHINGTON The U.S. House has voted to let the District of Columbia use city money to fund abortions for low-income women, implement a medical marijuana law and continue a needle-exchange program.
Because the city is under federal control its budget must be approved by Congress, which has long attached conditions. The city's non-voting delegate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, said Thursday's vote marked the first time in her memory that no conditions were attached.
D.C. voters approved a law allowing medical marijuana in 1998, but before it went into effect Congress blocked the city from setting its own drug policies. The needle exchange ban had been removed last year but Republicans sought to re-attach it to the bill. The budget still needs Senate approval.
Associated Press
12/10/09 5:03 PM EST
WASHINGTON The U.S. House has voted to let the District of Columbia use city money to fund abortions for low-income women, implement a medical marijuana law and continue a needle-exchange program.
Because the city is under federal control its budget must be approved by Congress, which has long attached conditions. The city's non-voting delegate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, said Thursday's vote marked the first time in her memory that no conditions were attached.
D.C. voters approved a law allowing medical marijuana in 1998, but before it went into effect Congress blocked the city from setting its own drug policies. The needle exchange ban had been removed last year but Republicans sought to re-attach it to the bill. The budget still needs Senate approval.