Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) urged the House and Senate Armed Services Committees’ leadership to include the District of Columbia National Guard Home Rule Act, which would give the D.C. mayor control over the D.C. National Guard, in the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The D.C. National Guard Home Rule Act passed the House as part of the fiscal year 2023 NDAA, but Republicans blocked it in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, today introduced a bill to require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to submit recommendations to Congress on how to reduce train noise and vibrations near homes, as well as cost estimates for each recommendation. Train noise and vibrations negatively affect residents of the District of Columbia and of communities across the country.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Conversion Act of 2023 today. Since 1994, Norton has introduced a version of the bill, 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, D.C. – After the House passed a disapproval resolution to nullify D.C.’s policing reform legislation, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) vowed to defeat the undemocratic, paternalistic resolution in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) spoke on the House floor today in advance of the House vote on a disapproval resolution that, if passed by the House and Senate and signed by the president, would nullify the policing reform legislation passed by the D.C. Council.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her remarks from yesterday’s press conference after a tour of the Howard University Transportation Research and Data Center with President of Howard University, Wayne A. I. Frederick, and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) spoke on the House floor today during debate on the rule governing consideration of the disapproval resolution that would nullify D.C.’s policing reform legislation. The Republican-controlled House is expected to vote on the disapproval resolution tomorrow, although the Biden Administration issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing the resolution yesterday saying President Biden would veto the resolution if it reached his desk.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today highlighted the Biden Administration’s Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) opposing the disapproval resolution that would, if enacted, nullify D.C.’s policing reform legislation. The House is expected to vote on the resolution this week. Norton said the resolution, and the enactment of the previous disapproval resolution that nullified D.C.’s revised criminal code, draw attention to the need for the only permanent protection for D.C. residents’ right to autonomy and local control over local affairs: enactment of her D.C. statehood bill.