Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), Robert Wilkie, asking that the VA indefinitely suspend all timely filing deadlines for veterans and surviving family members with an Intent to File (ITF) submission.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to the United States Parole Commission (USPC) urging it to use its authority to protect, and in some cases release, individuals under its jurisdiction in light of the coronavirus. The vast majority of individuals under USPC’s jurisdiction are D.C. residents.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management urging them to extend paid leave for teleworking federal employees to allow them to care for family members during the coronavirus pandemic.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter today to the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommitee on the Legislative Branch requesting that it instruct Capitol Police to create rules and regulations for the safe use of electric scooters on Capitol Grounds.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to the Director of Peace Corps, Jody Olsen, containing specific questions regarding assistance to Peace Corps volunteers returning home during the worldwide suspension of the agency’s program because of the coronavirus.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has introduced the Major General David F. Wherley, Jr., District of Columbia National Guard Retention and College Access Act to permanently authorize funding for a program that provides grants for higher education to members of the D.C. National Guard.

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today joined the newly formed Congressional Coronavirus Task Force, which seeks to collect, assess and use the information and expertise of Congress and its committees to better inform congressional policy and legislation.