Norton Vows to Defeat Disapproval Resolution After Committee Passage
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After the Republican Committee on Oversight and Accountability (COA) reported out a disapproval resolution that, if enacted, would overturn local D.C policing reform legislation, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) vowed to do everything in her power to protect the District’s autonomy and defeat the resolution.
“The Republican focus on meddling in local D.C. affairs, notably demonstrated by their obsessive questioning in yesterday’s COA hearing about the penalties for low-level crimes and especially in their committee vote to violate home rule and overturn D.C.’s policing reform legislation, is undemocratic and paternalistic,” Norton said. “Republicans have a peculiar preoccupation with expending their resources, which rightly belong to their own constituents, on meddling in local D.C. affairs – a district none of them represent in Congress. Their fixation on meddling in local D.C. matters consistently denies their own constituents time, attention and resources that should be used to solve problems for the people who elected them to Congress.
“I will continue working to do everything within my power to stop congressional meddling in local D.C. affairs, and I have one message for the current House Republicans: Keep your hands off D.C.”
Local D.C. legislation must be transmitted to Congress for a designated review period. If a disapproval resolution is enacted during that period, it prevents the D.C. bill from taking effect. Today’s markup was of a disapproval resolution introduced by Reps. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) and Andrew Garbarino (R-NY).
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