Eleanor Holmes Norton: “almost everybody else who drives the public has to have fingerprints and a background check except these people. We got…”

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

I think returning to a pre-Sackett regime would provide a uniform level of protection across the United States.

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.

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.