The three protesters that launched a hunger strike yesterday for D.C. voting rights and self-determination are planning on trying to meet with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) today, in hopes of having him introduce a clean bill granting the District budgetary autonomy.

Issa recently proposed a measure that would grant the city the right to spend its own money when it wanted to, except on one thing — funding for abortions for low-income women. City officials declined the offer, and the three hunger strikers hope to encourage Issa to introduce a bill without any strings attached.

The meeting couldn’t come on a more auspicious day.

It was on the day in 2009 that the Democratic Congress lifted a number of longstanding riders on the District’s budget forbidding the city from spending its own money on needle-exchange programs, abortions or implementing the medical marijuana program approved by voters in 1998.

Of course, the victory was short-lived — once Republicans took control of the House in 2011, they quickly reimposed the ban on abortion funding; it remains a point of contention between the Hill and the District.

The three hunger strikers will gather outside the Rayburn House Office Building and set off for Issa’s office at 11:15 a.m. Here’s to hoping that Issa is swayed.