Press Releases

(WASHINGTON, DC) – On Monday, March 10 at 3:30 p.m., Mayor Muriel Bowser will host a press conference to address the proposed continuing resolution. Mayor Bowser and District leaders will discuss impacts of the current draft which will lead to severe cuts in public safety and schools in Washington, DC.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After House Republicans released a continuing resolution (CR) that omitted a longstanding provision that would allow D.C. to continue to spend under its local fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget, which would force D.C. to revert to spending under the FY 2024 local budget and lead to projected cuts of $1 billion, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) filed an amendment at the Rules Committee to again include the provision. The CR also omitted a provision Norton has gotten included since FY 2015 to exempt D.C. from a federal government shutdown, which Norton’s amendment would also correct. The Rules Committee meets at 4:00 p.m. today to consider amendments to the CR.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced introduction of her Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Conversion Act of 2025. Norton has introduced a version of the bill 17 times since 1994, which would encourage the United States to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and redirect, upon certification that nuclear powers around the world have begun elimination of their nuclear weapons, the U.S.’s funding for nuclear weapons to health care, housing and addressing the climate crisis.

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced her Protecting Federal Agencies and Employees from Political Interference Act, which would prohibit the relocation of any federal department or agency headquarters outside of the National Capital Region (NCR) unless relocation legislation is passed by Congress and enacted into law.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), and the other Democratic members of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, Ranking Member Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), Greg Casar (D-Texas), and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), sent a letter to Elon Musk, opening an investigation into DOGE.gov following two recent incidents of alarming security failures and reports that DOGE employees shared sensitive government information using insecure communications channels.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After the midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) that killed 67 people, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wrote Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth urging the Department of Defense (DoD) to permanently cease transporting VIPs in the National Capital Region (NCR) by helicopter, with exceptions for the president, vice president and in national emergencies.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill today to allow individuals who are 70 and older to opt out of jury duty in the D.C. Superior Court.