Eleanor Holmes Norton: “The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global supply chains and highlighted longstanding challenges facing the trucking…”

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.

I have urged the administration to remove these troops immediately.

I will use every tool at my disposal to stop these riders from becoming law, and I commit to reminding my fellow lawmakers across the aisle that D.C. residents deserve the same consideration as their own constituents at every opportunity.

I’m gonna run. I don’t know why anybody would even ask me.