Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I do agree with you, Mr. Chairman, regarding how we must use the stimulus exercise, shall we call it.”

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.

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

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