{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/after-passage-two-anti-dc-home-rule-bills-norton-says-house-republican-cycle", "After Passage of Two Anti-D.C. Home Rule Bills, Norton Says House Republican Cycle of \u201cDisingenuous Partisanship\u201d Towards D.C. Must End", "2025-09-17", "2025", "2025-09", "Democrat", "House", "DC", "Eleanor Holmes Norton", "N000147", "norton.house.gov", "norton", "https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 After the House passed two anti-D.C. home rule bills to change D.C.\u2019s criminal laws today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said the cycle of disingenuous partisanship, in which Republicans in Congress claim to be concerned about D.C. while decreasing D.C.\u2019s ability to make its own decisions, must end. The first bill, the D.C. CRIMES Act, was introduced by Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) and would amend D.C.\u2019s Youth Rehabilitation Amendment Act, changing the age at which a court is allowed discretion to impose alternative sentences on a person, other than for certain offenses, and to seal the individual\u2019s records, from 24 to 18. The second bill, introduced by Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), would lower the age minors can be tried as adults in D.C. to 14 years old.\n\n\u201cToday\u2019s vote is yet another shameful assault on the democratic rights of more than 700,000 taxpaying D.C. residents. House Republicans, none of whom represent D.C. or are accountable to its people, are once again engaging in disingenuous partisanship to impose their preferred policies on D.C. This cycle is counterproductive, and it must end,\u201d Norton said.\n\n\u201cThis cycle of interference is not about good governance, since D.C. officials, not Republicans in Congress, are best positioned to decide what policies are beneficial for the District. It is about denying D.C. residents the basic right of self-government that every American deserves and treating the nation\u2019s capital as Republicans\u2019 own fiefdom, democracy be damned. Until D.C. achieves full autonomy and statehood, I will not stop fighting these undemocratic attacks.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "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/press-releases/after-passage-two-anti-dc-home-rule-bills-norton-says-house-republican-cycle"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.0378739573061466, "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"}