Norton Announces Introduction of Senate Companion to Her Women Who Worked on the Home Front World War II Memorial Act

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Mike Braun (R-IN) and Martha McSally (R-AZ) introduced a bipartisan Senate companion to Norton's Women Who Worked on the Home Front World War II Memorial Act, which authorizes the establishment of a memorial on federal land in the nation's capital to honor the women who worked on the home front during World War II. Norton's bill originated with a D.C. resident, 17-year-old Raya Kenney, who testified in front of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands on December 4, 2019 on the bill. The bill passed out of the Natural Resources Committee by unanimous consent on March 11, 2020.

"I am grateful to Senators Duckworth, Braun and McSally for introducing our bill and ensuring that it will be a bipartisan bill in the Senate, as it was in the House," Norton said. "Women have largely been ignored in the memorials on federal land in the nation's capital, even though they played key roles throughout American history, especially during World War II. Eighteen million American women kept the home front running and performed tasks at home that were previously assigned to men. This bill will honor those efforts and help women to be better represented in our memorials."