Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I will be encouraging my transportation authority to require local hiring preferences.”

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

I urge Members to vote ``no.'' Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Goldman).

I urge the FAA to do more to combat aviation noise and to engage more with affected communities on this matter.

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.