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It was April, 2007. The House of Representatives was debating a bill to increase the size of the House from 435 to 437 Members. Utah would score an extra seat. And the District of Columbia would secure a seat on the House floor.

Washington, DC isn’t a state. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., has served as the city’s non-voting delegate to Congress since 1991. And even though she couldn’t cast a ballot on that bill for DC, Norton was in the middle of the debate which teed up the bill.

Then-Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., asked Norton if "the gentlelady would yield" during her floor remarks, trying to get in a word edgewise.

Dreier stood a better chance at getting a harried driver to yield to him on an entrance ramp to the 4

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