Photo by Ted Eytan.

Photo by Ted Eytan.

You remember how the old Schoolhouse Rock tune goes: It’s not a bill on Capitol Hill if it doesn’t include outside legislators dictating policy to Washington D.C. residents.

The House of Representatives just passed the 2017 Financial Services Bill, which is full of riders that affect the District.

For one, the bill repeals D.C. budget autonomy, despite efforts from D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and some of her Democratic colleagues to permanently give the city power to control its locally raised funds.

Norton’s measure has the support of President Barack Obama, who said in a statement of policy that he “urges the Congress to adopt provisions included in the FY 2017 Budget request that would permanently allow the District to use local funds without congressional action.”

Views on the issue fall largely on party lines. When Speaker of the House Paul Ryan spoke out against D.C. budget autonomy in late May, he listed only one concrete reason: “The D.C. government wants to use revenues to fund abortions in the District. House Republicans will not stand for that.”

Indeed, conservative groups Right to Life Committee and Concerned Women for America came out against D.C. controlling its funds, urging members to vote against budget autonomy.

The two conservative groups had a more positive outlook about an amendment offered by Congressman Gary Palmer (R-AL) to block funding for the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act, which prevents employers from discriminating based on reproductive health decisions. (This same House already voted to overturn RHNDA in 2015, though the bill still became law in D.C. when the Senate never took up a vote.)

Palmer’s amendment made it into the final bill passed by the House today, and reproductive justice groups were not happy.

“By voting to block DC’s anti-discrimination law, they willfully leave women in our nation’s capital vulnerable to discrimination based on our personal reproductive health decisions,” said Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. “A woman should never fear being fired for her decision about whether, when, and with whom to grow her family.”

Also in the bill: blocking the use of federal or local funds for abortions, or toward full implementation of D.C.’s cannabis laws. It also prevents the use of federal funds on needle exchanges in D.C. Some measures, like attempts to roll back D.C. gun laws, were not ruled in order by the Rules Committee.

“I am disappointed that House Republicans embedded and added several harmful anti-home-rule riders into D.C.’s appropriations bill,” Norton said in a release. “We will face problems removing them in the Senate, but the hypocrisy of Members who swear by the principle of local control over local affairs is not as widespread there. I am already working with our Senate allies and the Obama Administration to remove the four anti-home-rule riders from any final spending bill that becomes law. Last year, I was able to remove the harmful rider that blocked RHNDA after it was included in the House bill, and I will be waging another vigorous fight this year.”