Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I thank the gentleman from Georgia for bringing this bill forward. I thank, especially, Chairman Chaffetz for his…”

“I thank the gentleman from Georgia for bringing this bill forward. I thank, especially, Chairman Chaffetz for his support in moving this bill through the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and now to the floor for consideration. I am also grateful to Ranking Member Elijah Cummings for his vital assistance as this bill moves forward. I thank Senator James Lankford, who once served with us on this committee and who introduced the companion bill in the Senate, which was already reported favorably by the Senate's Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee in May of this year. My bill, the District of Columbia Judicial Financial Transparency Act, as amended, will provide much-needed transparency to the District of Columbia's local courts by enhancing financial disclosure requirements for D.C. court judges to make them more similar to the disclosure requirements that are already in place for Article III Federal judges. District of Columbia judges are Article I Federal judges. Although current law requires D.C. Superior Court and D.C. Court of Appeals judges to file annual financial reports, there was no requirement that all of this information be made public.…”