Press Releases
July 20, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the House passed the fiscal year 2023 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, which includes many victories secured by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). The bill, among other things, provides $40 million for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG), a program a Norton bill created, and increases the annual and lifetime DCTAG awards; prohibits the president from federalizing the D.C. police department; and removes the two enacted fiscal year 2022 riders, which prohibit D.C. from spending its local funds on abortion and on recreational marijuana commercialization.
July 19, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) voted today on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole, a right that was suspended during the pandemic and restored today. Norton first won the vote for the District of Columbia in the Committee of the Whole in the 103rd Congress.
July 19, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will introduce an emergency appropriations bill for the current fiscal year (2022) to provide additional funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP). The funding will be designated for humanitarian assistance to migrants, including those being bused into the District of Columbia by Texas and Arizona.
July 19, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that she defeated all the anti-home-rule amendments filed by Republicans in the Committee on Rules on the House’s fiscal year 2023 District of Columbia Appropriations bill.
July 19, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that she defeated an amendment in the Committee on Rules to the House’s fiscal year 2023 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill that would have eliminated the $380 million she secured in the bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) consolidation project at the St. Elizabeths West Campus in the District of Columbia. Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) filed the amendment.
July 15, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called on the Biden administration to publicly endorse giving the District of Columbia mayor control over the D.C. National Guard. Yesterday, the House passed the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes Norton’s provision giving the mayor this authority. The Senate’s version of the bill does not include this provision. The Biden administration has never taken a position on whether it supports giving the mayor this authority.
July 14, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today vowed to defeat each amendment filed by Republicans at the Committee on Rules to the House’s fiscal year 2023 District of Columbia Appropriations bill that would prohibit D.C. from spending local funds on local policies. The committee, which determines which amendments can be offered on the floor, will consider amendments to the bill on Monday.
July 14, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today testified at a Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands hearing on her bill, co-led by Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), to remove the name of Francis G. Newlands, a former U.S. senator from Nevada who held racist views, from Chevy Chase Circle. The name appears on the fountain and a plaque in the circle, which is a federal park. The circle lies partly in the District of Columbia and partly in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District, which Raskin represents.
July 14, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), and Congressman Anthony Brown (D-MD) announced that their District of Columbia National Guard Home Rule Act, which would give the D.C. mayor control over the D.C. National Guard (DCNG), passed the House yesterday as an amendment to the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Currently, the president controls the DCNG, while the governors of the states and territories control their National Guards. This is the second time in history either chamber of Congress has voted to give the mayor this authority. The House did so last year, too.
July 13, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House today passed her amendment to the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act that would give the District of Columbia the same number of U.S. service academy nominations and appointments as states. Currently, each member of the House and Senate is allocated five appointments to each of the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy, and is allowed to nominate 10 people for each appointment as it becomes vacant. However, because D.C. has no senators, the District is deprived of 10 appointments to each of these service academies.