Press Releases
May 14, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, May 16th, at 9:00 a.m., Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), together with a local coalition of D.C. residents, will hold a press conference at the House Triangle calling on the House and Senate to keep their hands off D.C. On Tuesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold a hearing on D.C. titled, “Overdue Oversight of the Capital City: Part II,” and the Senate is expected to vote on a disapproval resolution that, if enacted, would nullify D.C.’s policing reform legislation.
May 11, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wrote to the U.S. Botanic Garden requesting it begin displaying marijuana for the first time after the Botanic Garden recently displayed hemp for the first time in its history. Norton had previously requested that the Botanic Garden display hemp.
May 9, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After more than 100 deaths due to recent election-related violence in Nigeria, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY), and Congressman Marc Veasey (D-TX) led 23 members of Congress in urging Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to designate the country for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). TPS designation would allow Nigerian nationals in the U.S. to temporarily remain instead of returning to Nigeria amid the country’s ongoing armed conflict.
May 9, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and Congressman Glenn Ivey (D-MD) today led 15 members of Congress, including the entire National Capital Region delegation, in urging the Biden administration to provide robust funding and an expedited timeline for the Union Station Expansion Project (USEP), which would more than double the station’s current capacity.
May 9, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill today to require the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to install security cameras at all USPS facilities to protect USPS employees, customers and property.
May 1, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to President Biden, signed by 46 other members of Congress, urging creation of an interagency working group on climate change and migration that would better protect populations displaced by weather-related disasters and support efforts to build resilience in the United States and across the world. A 2021 White House report recommended the creation of a standing interagency policy process on Climate Change and Migration to coordinate the U.S.'s response to migration resulting from climate change, but such a process has yet to be established.
April 27, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a resolution expressing support for the designation of May 1, 2023, as “D.C. Statehood Day” and calling for statehood for the District through enactment of her Washington, D.C. Admission Act.
April 26, 2023
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.
April 24, 2023
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.
April 20, 2023
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.