Press Releases
September 16, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform will mark up her District of Columbia Home Rule Expansion Act, which would be the biggest expansion of D.C. home rule since passage of the D.C. Home Rule Act in 1973, at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. The bill would give D.C. the exclusive authority to prosecute D.C. crimes, give D.C. the exclusive authority to grant clemency for D.C. crimes, and eliminate the congressional review period for D.C. legislation.
September 15, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, September 19 at 11:00 a.m. ET, the Truck Safety Coalition will host a live press conference announcing the release of the new “Deadliest Truck Crash States Report” and feature powerful crash victim statements with reporters alongside Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Citizens for Reliable Safe Highways Board Chair and former National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Administrator Joan Claybrook.
September 14, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) announced that Norton’s Securities and Exchange Commission Real Estate Leasing Authority Revocation Act, which would revoke the independent real estate leasing authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and direct the Government Accountability Office to update its 2016 report on independent real estate leasing authority, passed the House today. The bill passed out of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in July.
September 13, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This afternoon, beginning at approximately 2:45 p.m., Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will manage several Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (T&I) bills on the House floor for the Democrats, including her bill to revoke the independent real estate leasing authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission and to direct the Government Accountability Office to update its 2016 report on independent real estate leasing authority. Norton is running for chair or ranking member of T&I in the 118th Congress.
September 13, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today condemned a bill introduced by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) that would repeal the District of Columbia’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students and prohibit D.C. and schools in D.C. from using D.C. funds to impose or enforce such a mandate. This is Cruz’s fourth attack this Congress on D.C.’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.
September 13, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a resolution supporting the designation of Saturday, September 17, 2022, as National Dance Day. In 2010, Norton partnered with “So You Think You Can Dance” co-creator Nigel Lythgoe to launch the first National Dance Day with inaugural celebrations on the National Mall and in Los Angeles.
September 12, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that her Securities and Exchange Commission Real Estate Leasing Authority Revocation Act, which would revoke the independent real estate leasing authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and direct the Government Accountability Office to update its 2016 report on independent real estate leasing authority, will be on the House floor tomorrow. The bill passed out of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in July.
September 9, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congressman Jesús G. “Chuy” García (D-IL), and Congressman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) sent a letter, signed by 20 other members of Congress, today to Chairwoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) and Ranking Member Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN) of the House Subcommittee on Homeland Security Committee on Appropriations requesting that the upcoming fiscal year 2023 (FY23) continuing resolution (CR) provide $50 million above the enacted fiscal year 2022 (FY22) level to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) for humanitarian assistance to migrants.
September 9, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called on District of Columbia residents to remember the children, teachers, and others lost in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, ahead of the 21st anniversary of the attacks.
September 9, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today highlighted a letter a dozen House Republicans sent yesterday that called for hearings on repealing the District of Columbia Home Rule Act if D.C. does not repeal its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students. The letter follows statements from Representative Andrew Clyde (R-GA) that he would introduce legislation to repeal the Home Rule Act, as well as statements from other Republicans, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), that they intend to interfere in D.C.’s local affairs if they are in the majority next Congress. House and Senate Republicans have tried eight times this Congress to overturn D.C. vaccine policies. Norton has defeated each attempt.