Eleanor Holmes Norton: “the leadership of the House and the Senate are trying earnestly to discover at this point whether there is any effect on…”

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.

H.R. 8505, the Household Goods Shipping Consumer Protection Act, restores the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's authority to issue civil penalties against bad actors and enhances registration criteria.

Because there is no limit on how long personal information can be exploited, Congress must protect these federal employees and contractors in perpetuity.

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