{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton-condemns-11th-attack-on-dc-vaccine-mandates", "Norton Condemns 11th Attack on D.C. Vaccine Mandates", "2022-09-13", "2022", "2022-09", "Democrat", "House", "DC", "Eleanor Holmes Norton", "N000147", "norton.house.gov", "norton", "https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today condemned a bill introduced by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) that would repeal the District of Columbia's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students and prohibit D.C. and schools in D.C. from using D.C. funds to impose or enforce such a mandate. This is Cruz's fourth attack this Congress on D.C.'s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.\n\n\"Senator Ted Cruz is a regular violator of D.C. home rule,\" Norton said. \"Senator Cruz, like many other Republicans who profess to support local control of local affairs, tries to use the federal government's undemocratic power over D.C. to dictate local D.C. policy. D.C.'s duly elected local government adopted the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students, and Senator Cruz does not have the right to interfere in this policy decision. Until my D.C. statehood bill is enacted, Republicans will continue to try to interfere in D.C.'s local affairs.\n\nThe Cruz bill is the 11th attack this Congress on D.C. vaccine policies, all of which Norton has defeated:\n\nCruz filed a motion to commit the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to block D.C. from using funds to enforce its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.\n\nSenator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced a bill that would nullify D.C.'s requirements that individuals present documentation of COVID-19 vaccination to enter certain facilities and that students receive COVID-19 vaccination.\n\nRepresentative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced a bill that would nullify D.C.'s requirement that individuals present documentation of COVID-19 vaccination to enter certain facilities.\n\nCruz introduced a disapproval resolution that would block D.C.'s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.\n\nRepresentative Pat Fallon (R-TX) introduced a bill that would prohibit D.C. from requiring an individual to present documentation of COVID-19 vaccination to enter any building, facility, or other venue.\n\nCruz filed an amendment to the third fiscal year 2022 continuing resolution that would have blocked D.C. funds from being used at any school that enforces a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.\n\nRepresentative Michael Cloud (R-TX) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced a disapproval resolution that would have blocked D.C.'s bill that permits minors to receive a vaccination without parental consent.\n\n49 House and Senate Republicans sent a letter demanding Congress defund the enforcement of D.C. COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the first fiscal year 2022 appropriations bill.\n\n12 House Republicans sent a letter calling for hearings on repealing the D.C. Home Rule Act if D.C. does not repeal its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:08:33Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton-condemns-11th-attack-on-dc-vaccine-mandates"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1447686702013016, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}