As the U.S. House Rules Committee met Monday to consider three Republican-backed bills targeting the District of Columbia’s local governance, U.S. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) denounced the measures as “paternalistic” and undemocratic attacks on the will of more than 700,000 D.C. residents.

The bills under consideration would override local D.C. laws on voting, policing, and immigration cooperation.

“Republicans introduced 14 bills or amendments to prohibit noncitizens from voting in D.C. or to repeal, nullify or prohibit the carrying out of D.C.’s law that permits noncitizens to vote last Congress,” Norton said in a statement ahead of the Rules Committee meeting.

One of the bills, introduced by Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX), seeks to prohibit noncitizen D.C. residents from voting i

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