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While D.C. has a lot to be thankful for this year, two of the many things the city still lacks are equal representation in Congress and complete control over our own legislative affairs.

Because of this, a person from Texas has introduced legislation that would force D.C. to have a public firing range and stop using automated traffic cameras, as WAMU reported.

Rep. Steve Stockman, who represents Texas’ 36th district, was not elected by D.C. residents. He’s the person who brought Ted Nugent to the State of the Union. Here’s a thing he once said about the Violence Against Women Act, which was expanded to protect lesbians and transgender women in 2013: “This is helping the liberals, this is horrible. Unbelievable. What really bothers — it’s called a women’s act, but then they have men dressed up as women, they count that. Change-gender, or whatever. How is that — how is that a woman?”

But on his way out of Congress, Stockman has used the power granted to him by the Constitution to introduce “H.R. 5756: To restore a public firearms range to the District of Columbia” and the “Safer American Streets Act,” which would “withhold certain highway funds from a state that uses an automated traffic enforcement system on a federal-aid highway” and completely prohibit traffic camera use in D.C. Neither have any chance of passing.

Indeed, as Talking Points Memo put it, Stockman is leaving Congress “in a blaze of trolling glory.” Maybe we’d be able to laugh if Stockman, and the other 535 voting members of Congress, didn’t have the power to actually block legislation supported by local residents.