{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/ahead-8th-anti-home-rule-hearing-congress-norton-calls-end-paternalistic", "Ahead of 8th Anti-Home Rule Hearing This Congress, Norton Calls for End to Paternalistic, Wasteful Hearings on Local D.C. Affairs", "2024-05-07", "2024", "2024-05", "Democrat", "House", "DC", "Eleanor Holmes Norton", "N000147", "norton.house.gov", "norton", "https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Ahead of tomorrow\u2019s anti-D.C. home rule Committee on Oversight and Reform (COR) hearing, titled \u201cOversight of D.C.\u2019s Response to Unlawful Activity and Antisemitism,\u201d Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the current Republican preoccupation with grandstanding to score political points at D.C.\u2019s expense must end. Tomorrow\u2019s hearing will be the eighth anti-DC hearing \u2013 the fifth in COR \u2013 held by House Republicans this Congress, none of whom were elected to represent D.C.\n\n\u201cProtests are occurring on campuses across the country, including in Chairman Comer\u2019s home state of Kentucky,\u201d Norton said. \u201cThe only remarkable aspect of the protests at George Washington University is that they\u2019re occurring in D.C., which has more experience managing protests than any other jurisdiction in the country. This undemocratic, paternalistic preoccupation with the affairs of D.C. by members of Congress elected to represent far-away districts must end.\n\n\u201cWhile my colleagues across the aisle could be working to solve problems across the country or to advance the goals of their own constituents, they are instead choosing, yet again, to use valuable time scoring political points at the expense of nearly 700,000 people who live in D.C. who elected me to represent them in Congress. Ahead of the eighth anti-DC home rule hearing in the 118th Congress, I\u2019m calling for an end to the unseemly, paternalistic, wasteful Republican fixation on D.C.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:01:11Z"]], "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/ahead-8th-anti-home-rule-hearing-congress-norton-calls-end-paternalistic"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6207452863454819, "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"}