Eleanor Holmes Norton: “This is a very useful hearing. We are learning what the Affordable Health Care Act has achieved so that we can evaluate…”

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

Throughout my career in Congress I’ve passionately defended home rule and DC’s right to govern itself.

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