Betty McCollum: “This is the result of decades and decades and decades of neglect and failure of the Federal government to live up to its…”

Mr. Speaker, last week the Republican Majority in the House of Representatives decided that they know better than the residents of the District of Columbia what their local government needs.

We cannot afford to abandon these investments during a worsening climate crisis.

H.R. 881 is a solution in search of a problem.

I urge the Republican House Majority to stop bringing these harmful and nonsensical attacks on our public health and the environment to the House floor.