{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/ahead-rules-committee-consideration-anti-dc-bill-norton-says-bill-will-only", "Ahead of Rules Committee Consideration of Anti-D.C. Bill, Norton Says Bill Will Only Embolden President Trump", "2026-03-24", "2026", "2026-03", "Democrat", "House", "DC", "Eleanor Holmes Norton", "N000147", "norton.house.gov", "norton", "https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a statement ahead of Rules Committee consideration of the anti-D.C. bill, the Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act (H.R. 5103), introduced by Rep. John McGuire (R-VA). The bill would undermine D.C.\u2019s autonomy by codifying parts of President Trump\u2019s executive order of the same name into law. The Rules Committee will consider the bill at 4:00 p.m. and the full House is expected to debate the bill on Wednesday. The live stream of today\u2019s hearing will be available on rules.house.gov.\n\nMcGuire\u2019s bill would establish the \u201cD.C. Safe and Beautiful Commission.\u201d As originally introduced, the Commission included only federal officials as members of the Commission and excluded any representation from the D.C. government, despite the power to make consequential changes affecting the District. The bill has since been amended to allow a representative from the D.C. Mayor\u2019s Office as one of its 10 members.\n\nThe Commission\u2019s first two listed responsibilities are aimed at increasing immigration enforcement in D.C. Specifically, the Commission is required to ensure the \u201cmaximum enforcement of Federal immigration law within the District of Columbia, including\u2026 the redirection of available Federal, State, or local law enforcement resources to apprehend and deport illegal aliens,\u201d and to monitor D.C.\u2019s \u201csanctuary-city status and compliance with the enforcement of Federal immigration law.\u201d The Commission is also required to facilitate the \u201cdeployment of a more robust Federal law enforcement presence\u201d in D.C. and \u201cincrease the speed and lower the costs of processing concealed carry\u201d gun permits in D.C.\n\n\u201cThis bill seeks to further President Trump\u2019s efforts to control and demonize D.C. and its residents, the majority of whom are Black and Brown,\u201d Norton said. \u201cPresident Trump has already called for the repeal of D.C. home rule, federalized the D.C. Police, deployed troops and masked federal agents on D.C.\u2019s streets, terrorized immigrants in D.C., demolished the East Wing of the White House and closed the Kennedy Center. This bill will only further embolden him.\n\n\u201cThe arrogance of President Trump\u2019s patronizing efforts is evident in his executive order issued in March of 2025 and in the original bill\u2019s exclusion of any representative from the D.C. government from sitting on a Commission which has \u2018D.C.\u2019 in its very title. Although the bill now includes one slot for a member from the D.C. Mayor\u2019s Office, designating one out of 10 members to represent the interests of D.C. residents is an insultingly insufficient adjustment.\n\n\u201cAt a time when 60% of Americans disapprove of ICE\u2019s actions terrorizing communities all over the country, it strikes me as politically unwise for Republicans to pass legislation expanding ICE\u2019s ability to terrorize the nation\u2019s capital, where residents are well informed on their rights and where thousands of journalists live, work, and store their cameras.\n\n\u201cLet me be clear: Republican members of Congress who are not accountable to D.C. have no business dictating the local laws of a city where 700,000 people live permanently and have chosen their own leaders through the democratic process. If Republicans truly cared about making D.C. safe and beautiful, they wouldn\u2019t work to increase the number of deadly firearms in the District; they\u2019d fully fund the National Park Service, which maintains over 90% of D.C.\u2019s parkland and has lost a quarter of its staff since President Trump took office.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-04-24T05:51:25Z", "2026-04-24T05:53:00Z"]], "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-rules-committee-consideration-anti-dc-bill-norton-says-bill-will-only"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9308205917477608, "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"}