Photo by Heather Goss Just like that, it’s over. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) has announced that he will not allow the D.C. House Voting Rights Act to come to a vote this year after all. The decision comes after several heated days of posturing among city officials, with some lining up in favor of Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s decision to push forward despite a controversial amendment that would have stripped the District…

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton To follow-up on Martin’s post about the resurrection of the D.C. House Voting Rights Act, Eleanor Holmes Norton has emailed out the following statement (she’s stuck at home with laryngitis, according to her office). This constitutes Norton officially raising the white flag and giving up any real hope of scrubbing the gun amendment language completely from the bill. After a year of stalling while she looked for a way…