Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I want to thank the chair for this really important and timely hearing.”

Mr. Speaker, today, I introduce the Federal Employee Short-Term Disability Insurance Act of 2026, which would make short-term disability insurance available to federal employees.

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

Lifetime identity protection is the only solution that will give the workers whose data was compromised the peace of mind they deserve.

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.