More than two dozen members of Congress are urging a House subcommittee to keep the District’s needle exchange program intact next year, a move intended to ward off the perennial threat on Capitol Hill to the program’s funding.

D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and 31 other representatives sent a letter this week to the leadership of the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, asking the committee to continue allowing the city to use its own money to fund its needle exchange program in next year’s federal budget.

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