Eleanor Holmes Norton: “Well, we will be sure that--because we are working on a bill as I speak, trying to make it a bipartisan bill.”

Mr. Speaker, today, I introduce the Federal Employee Short-Term Disability Insurance Act of 2026, which would make short-term disability insurance available to federal employees.

H.R. 8505 would provide FMCSA with better tools to root out unscrupulous actors, which are also harmful to consumers and highway safety.

I have one response to people with doubts about my ability to serve: Watch me.

With this bill, House Republicans have intentionally committed nothing short of fiscal sabotage against D.C.