District residents are a step closer to taxpayer-subsidized abortions and a medical marijuana referendum after the House Appropriations Committee late Tuesday adopted D.C.’s federal appropriation without long-standing budget riders forbidding the city from moving forward on either matter.

Attempts by Republicans to fully fund the D.C. private school voucher program, to reattach the ban on a marijuana referendum and to continue the 20-year prohibition on the use of local money to subsidize abortions all failed. There were no attempts to ban gay marriage, as some anticipated, nor were there any amendments offered to obliterate D.C.’s gun laws.