for District of Columbia Circuit in Regular Active Service Acting in Their Official Capacities, 952 F.2d 423, 425 (D.C.Cir. 1991), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 829, 113 S.Ct. 92, 121 L.Ed.2d 54 (1992). Defendants argue that sovereign immunity bars plaintiffs claims against the United States. See Defs.’ Mot. at 5. Defendants further argue that none of the jurisdictional bases on which plaintiff relies, see Compl. at 1, can avoid this jurisdictional bar. See Defs.’ Mot. at 5-7. Defendants correctly note that 28 U.S.C. § 1331 confers federal question jurisdiction on the district courts and that 28 U.S.C. § 2201 authorizes declaratory relief as a remedy. See id. at 5. Neither provision waives the federal government’s sovereign immunity. See Swan v. Clinton, 100 F.3d 973, 981 (D.C.Cir.1996) (<HOLDING>); Balistrieri v. United States, 303 F.2d 617,
holding that 28 usc  1331 which states that district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions arising under the constitution laws or treaties of the united states does not constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity holding that removal by a foreign sovereign is explicitly authorized by 28 usc 1441d and clearly cannot constitute waiver holding that statutes conferring general jurisdiction including 28 usc  1331 do not waive sovereign immunity holding that 28 usc  1331 does not constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity holding that 28 usc  1361 which provides that district courts shall have original jurisdiction  to compel an officer or employee of the united states  to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff does not constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity