Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) today praised President Joe Biden for mandating in an executive order that federal law enforcement agencies use body cameras, adopt and publicly post body camera policies and expedite release of video footage to the public following incidents involving serious bodily injury or deaths while an individual is in custody. On September 27, 2021, Norton and Beyer sent a letter to Biden requesting that he require federal law enforcement agencies to use body and dashboard cameras.

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 nomination today to 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 nominated to a higher court this year. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, whom Norton recommended to President Obama for the U.S. District Court for D.C., was recently confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) received an interim response from the National Park Service (NPS) to her April 21, 2022, letter about the investigation into an automobile crash that killed two pedestrians at Hains Point last year. NPS has informed Norton that it had supplied the driver’s name to the families of the victims, which they needed to file life insurance claims. Norton is still waiting for a response to her questions regarding the status of the investigation and the procedures for investigating traffic crashes on NPS land in the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) criticized a bill introduced by Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) that would prohibit new construction, major renovations, and new or renewed leases for the headquarters of federal agencies in the National Capital Region (NCR), with limited exceptions. The bill also would require the General Services Administration to establish a process to consider the relocation of headquarters. The bill is intended to move headquarters out of the NCR. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill that would designate the post office at 400 Southern Avenue SE in the District of Columbia as the “District of Columbia Servicemembers and Veterans Post Office.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today warned that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has become at least the second House Republican this year to say that, if Republicans are in the majority next year, they should repeal the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which gave D.C. an elected chief executive (mayor) and legislature (Council). In February, Representative Andrew Clyde (R-GA) also said that a Republican House should repeal the Home Rule Act, and he said he was working on a bill to do so, which he has yet to introduce. Several other House Republicans, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA) and Representative James Comer (KY), the ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, which has jurisdiction over D.C., have told the press this year that they plan to limit D.C.’s authority to govern its own affairs next Congress.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wrote the United States Postal Service (USPS) about the increase in mail theft, particularly of checks, through the use of stolen universal keys. Thieves have been using universal keys to steal checks and then change the payees and dollar amounts. Norton requested a response by May 30, 2022, outlining the steps USPS is taking to remedy the problem.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today passed the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (WRDA), which contains her provisions authorizing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct studies on a secondary drinking water source for the District of Columbia, swimming in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers in D.C., and flooding in the Federal Triangle area of D.C.