Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Quiet Skies Caucus (QSC) Co-Chairs Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA) and Vice Chairs Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY) led QSC members in sending a letter to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg requesting the addition of five community representatives to the NextGen Advisory Committee (NAC), which advises the Federal Aviation Administration, as part of NAC’s June 2022 charter renewal.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a statement on the passing of former Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) over the weekend. Hatch coauthored the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act, which would have given D.C. permanent House voting representation and a temporary additional House seat for Utah, which narrowly missed getting a new House seat after the 2000 census.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, will hold a subcommittee hearing titled “Examining Workforce Development and Job Creation in Surface Transportation Construction” on Wednesday, April 27th at 2:00 p.m. The hearing will examine the current state of the U.S. surface transportation construction workforce and how the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will impact job creation, challenges and opportunities to developing a workforce that can meet current and future infrastructure needs, and a review of government and industry initiatives designed to address workforce development challenges.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the Breastfeeding Mothers Jury Duty Exclusion Act, which would allow breastfeeding mothers, upon their request, to be excused from jury service in federal court and in the federally controlled District of Columbia Superior Court. Norton says a constituent raised this issue in a letter to her office. The health benefits of breastfeeding are so well-documented that Norton wanted to bring jury service in line with existing federal policy on encouraging breastfeeding.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, the day after the federal tax filing deadline, called on the Senate to pass her District of Columbia statehood bill. Norton noted that D.C. pays more federal taxes per capita than any state and more federal taxes than 23 states, but D.C. residents have no voting representation in Congress.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) reintroduced her resolution commemorating Emancipation Day, which is an official holiday in the District of Columbia. Emancipation Day commemorates President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the D.C. Compensated Emancipation Act, which freed 3,100 enslaved people in the District, nine months ahead of the Emancipation Proclamation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — During the week of the anniversary of the start of the Civil War — April 12, 1861 — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill to recognize and preserve the Civil War Defenses of Washington, located in the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland, by redesignating them as a national historic park. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced she has extended the deadline for applying to her office for fiscal year 2023 Community Project Funding, formerly known as earmarks, to April 18th. The deadline was previously April 13th. For a Community Project Funding application to be considered, eligible entities must submit an application by 5:00 p.m. on April 18, 2022, to NortonCommunityProjectFunding@mail.house.gov. Late or incomplete applications, including applications that do not provide the information required by the relevant appropriations subcommittee, will not be considered.