Eleanor Holmes Norton: “Eighty-six percent of the people advised the Council to approve our new Constitution.”

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.

This bill would establish a commonsense process to ensure that qualified nominees are not indefinitely delayed by Senate inaction.

In my long career representing D.C. residents in Congress, I have rarely seen a bill as unreasonable and patronizing to the more than 700,000 people who live in the nation’s capital as this one.

Lifetime identity protection is the only solution that will give the workers whose data was compromised the peace of mind they deserve.