mayor vince gray and delegate eleanor holmes norton, democrats, the officials who are arrested at the capital while protesting the budget deal that obama amade with republicans. >> a couple of little minor things have been worked out in the budget resolution. the minor things are what they are mad about now. a rider was put in the bill by agreement of the john boehner, president obama, and harry reid to provide the district from spending its money the way it sees fit -- to prevent the district from spending its money the way it sees fit. autonomy, the ability to spend money to wait you -- the way you feel you should. and money for the voucher program -- that was not solicited by officials of the city government. >> they could not get planned parenthood. it wanted to get planned parenthood. they went after d.c. -- is tha t what happened? >> it is part of the pro-life package. if you don't know before, you must know now that only 3% of planned parenthood of's budget goes to abortion, because the jon kyl said was 90% and it turned out to be not true and a lot of people made fun of them.

eleanor holmes norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from the district of columbia is recognized for two minutes. ms. norton: thank you, madam speaker, and i thank the gentleman from colorado for yielding to me and for his work on this bill. madam speaker, the district of columbia has no vote on the rule or the bill under consideration, yet, the only controversial amendments in this bill involve only the district of columbia. the bill is remarkably clean. there are only four out of 50 or so attachments survived. not one -- yeah, there's the district of columbia. the only controversial amendments violate the district's most basic right to self-government. one has to do with private school vouchers. only for the district of columbia. a bill we didn't ask for, a bill we weren't consulted about and a bill we don't want. if my -- the rules committee refused to recognize my amendment which would redirect the money to the d.c. public schools and to our own public charter schools, 40% of our children go

eleanor holmes norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from the district of columbia is recognized for two minutes. ms. norton: thank you, madam speaker, and i thank the gentleman from colorado for yielding to me and for his work on this bill. madam speaker, the district of columbia has no vote on the rule or the bill under consideration, yet, the only controversial amendmes in this bill involve only the district of columbia. the bill is remarkably clean. there are only four out of 50 or so attachments survived. not one -- yeah, there's the district of coluia. the only controversial amendments violate the district's most basic right to self-government. one has to do with private school vouchers. only for the district of columbia. a bill we didn't ask for, a bill we weren't consulted about and a bill we don't want. if my -- the rules committee refused to recognize my amendment which would redirect the money to the d.c. public schools ando our own public charter schools, 40% of our children go to thi

eleanor holmes norton speaking on the house floor yesterday. >> 2011 continuing resolution to on theloor this week contains the sinister trade that takes the self-governing right to spend its own local funds on abortion services for poor women, as many jurisdictions have long done. the cr also funds the startup of a new private school voucher program, but only in d.c., about which no local elected official was consulted. it is the house republicans who had been on an undemocratic warpath against the district's own rule, but yesterday residents did not spare democrats or the president to accept of republican demands. host: on the house floor yesterday reacting to the demonstration and the rest of the d.c. mayor and members of the d.c. city council, 40 in all arrested as they protested outside the cartel office building in blocking traffic on constitution avenue. for details on where the cuts for the current fiscal year are, at the two page a-3 -- go to a- 3. $8 billion in cuts including reductions in the economic supports funds. hhs getting less for family planning aid. the justice de

eleanor holmes norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from the district of columbia is recognized for two minutes. ms. norton: thank you, madam speaker, and i thank the gentleman from colorado for yielding to me and for his work on this bill. madam speaker, the district of columbia has no vote on the rule or the bill under consideration, yet, the only controversial amendments in this bill involve only the district of columbia. the bill is remarkably clean. there are only four out of 50 or so attachments survived. not one -- yeah, there's the district of columbia. the only controversial amendments violate the district's most basic right to self-government. one has to do with private school vouchers. only for the district of columbia. a bill we didn't ask for, a bill we weren't consulted about and a bill we don't want. if my -- the rules committee refused to recognize my amendment which would redirect the money to the d.c. public schools and to our own public charter schools, 40% of our children go

i'm represented by lamar smith, and d.c., i'm represented by eleanor holmes thornton who does not have a vote. i prefer a congresswoman norton to smith. it is an oddity to this day, washington, d.c. has no congressional representation. it's more than an oddity, i think it's a travesty. i went to indulge you for a few moments in a bit of my personal history that has nothing to do with what i started with. and that is -- [laughter] >> -- in 1971, i was hired at a public school in texas. i had just graduated at the university of houston. i went to work as a public school. here's my trip. i a '66 dodge dart. i started out on telephone road. the telephone road of the steve earl song, i crossed the houston channel, one the most polluted bodies of water in the nation. i was a casual workers on the docks and the ila had warnings about the possibility of death should you fall into the water. on down highway 90, i passed -- i knew it before -- miles before i got there, after i crossed the river, on my right, was the french is limited slot pit. which was later an epa -- a super fund site. in this pit, 100 ship channel companies dumped