Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced she will introduce a bill to reduce federal employee pay compression. This bill would allow federal employees who reach the pay cap in their respective pay system to receive the base and locality pay adjustments they would otherwise be entitled to. Currently, federal employees who reach the pay cap do not receive such adjustments. Norton is a senior member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, which has jurisdiction over federal employees.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter urging the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) not to try to recoup money from current and former federal and District of Columbia employees who, as D.C. National Guard (DCNG) members, did not have their civilian pay offset by the pay they received from the DCNG when they took encampment leave. DoD and OPM have indicated these members should have had their civilian pay offset by their DCNG pay during encampment leave, including leave related to the coronavirus pandemic and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and may soon try to recoup it.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will receive the National Urban League’s “Living Legend Award” on Friday, July 22, 2022.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) congratulated Judge Florence Pan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on her approval today by the Senate Judiciary Committee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Norton recommended Pan to President Biden for the U.S. District Court for D.C. Pan is the second judge recommended by Norton to be approved for a higher court this year. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, whom Norton recommended to President Obama for the U.S. District Court for D.C., was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The next step for Judge Pan’s nomination is confirmation by the Senate.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her amendment to provide $1 million for law school clinical programs that provide pro bono legal assistance to veterans passed the House. Norton’s amendment is now part of the House’s fiscal year 2023 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. Norton was a tenured professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House today passed the fiscal year 2023 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, which includes $380 million she secured for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) consolidation project at the St. Elizabeths West Campus in the District of Columbia. Norton defeated an amendment filed by Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) that would have eliminated the funding.

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.