Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I appreciate, Mr. Missal, that you were willing to depart from your usual processes in order to alert the VA.”

D.C. has not been treated as a federal agency for funding purposes in more than 20 years precisely because doing so can force dramatic overnight cuts to essential services, including police, sanitation, and schools.

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.

FEMA has provided more than $1.6 billion in assistance to more than 910,000 households.

Our local police force should not be subject to federalization, an action that wouldn't be possible for any other police department in the country.