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March 20, 2020
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.

March 19, 2020
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.

March 19, 2020
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.

March 18, 2020
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.

March 16, 2020
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.

March 13, 2020
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.

March 13, 2020
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.

March 12, 2020
Washington, D.C.--The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the Capitol and the House of Representatives closed to unescorted visitors beginning at 5 p.m. today, Thursday, March 12, 2020.

March 11, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her bill to authorize the establishment of a national memorial in honor of the women who worked on the home front during World War II passed out of House Natural Resources Committee by unanimous consent today.

March 10, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that her bill to authorize 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 will be marked up by the House Natural Resources Committee tomorrow, Wednesday, March 11th at 10 a.m.