Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I don't know what the District of Columbia can do to satisfy the ideologically driven Members on the other side. We…”

“I don't know what the District of Columbia can do to satisfy the ideologically driven Members on the other side. We protected religious liberty. There have been absolutely no challenges. Republicans persist in ignoring the plain wording on abortion, and, above all, they have ignored their own groundwork principle of local control. This is a majority that yells local control for everybody except the residents of the District of Columbia. We have defeated this amendment before. We will defeat this amendment again, if not in this House, in the other Chamber, I assure you. It is law. It is going to remain law. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time. {time} 1445”