Dozens of protesters staked out the office of Republican Congressman Trent Franks Wednesday, hoping to get him to answer for his interference in the abortion policies of the District.

D.C. residents, including Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton herself, were outraged this week after Norton was kept from testifying at a hearing on D.C.'s pwm abortion laws. CQ's David Hawkings talks about what happened in Congress this week. 

D.C. Voting Rights advocates are hoping to convince one member of Congress to butt out of D.C.'s affairs by swarming his office with complaints next week. 

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is haranguing House Republicans for denying her request to speak at a hearing on regulating abortions in the District. 

D.C. is getting another chance at budget autonomy as Sen. Joe Lieberman has introduced a bill that would allow D.C. to manage its own local financial affairs without Congressional intervention.

Activists turned up at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to renew the battle for budget autonomy, as the looming specter of government shutdown prompts more residents to action.

The New Hampshire state legislature rejected a non-binding proposal Friday that would have supported D.C.'s bid for statehood. Legislators cited constitutional concerns.

New Hampshire is considering a resolution that lend the support of their state to the calls for D.C. statehood -- a message that is being spread up the coast by the Occupy hunger strikers.

D.C. officials are pulling for a bill in the New Hampshire state legislature that would support statehood for the District. 

Several were arrested at the Capitol Friday protesting the rider in the federal budget deal that would prevent the District from using its own money to provide abortions for low-income women.