Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I believe there is an important shared community of interest between rural and urban America that I think many Members…”

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.

I’m gonna run. I don’t know why anybody would even ask me.

I will use every tool at my disposal to stop these riders from becoming law, and I commit to reminding my fellow lawmakers across the aisle that D.C. residents deserve the same consideration as their own constituents at every opportunity.

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.