Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I think we ought to drill down and stop simply talking about cliffs and disaster and let's say what we really mean.”

I am outraged at the number and scope of anti-D.C. home rule riders in the bill released today.

This process is key to our democracy. It provides avenues for every citizen, lawmaker, and stakeholder to provide input into the rulemaking process.

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

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.