Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I was astonished that bus drivers... were being attacked apparently often enough so that a job action was threatened.”

I have urged the administration to remove these troops immediately.

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.

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.

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.