Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. — At a Committee on Oversight and Reform (COR) hearing on Tuesday, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) highlighted how her District of Columbia priorities were included in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP). The hearing examined the impact of ARP’s fiscal relief for states and localities. ARP retroactively provided D.C. the $755 million it was denied when the CARES Act treated D.C. as a territory instead of a state for fiscal relief, and ARP treated D.C. as a state, county and city for new fiscal relief, since D.C. provides each level of service.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reintroduced her Federal Employee Short-Term Disability Insurance Act, which would allow federal employees to purchase short-term disability insurance at group rates to replace a portion of their income lost due to a short-term injury or disability, pregnancy or pregnancy-related illness. Norton noted that this bill is more important than ever with the emergence of Long COVID.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a statement on her meeting earlier this week with the National Park Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to discuss the unexploded ordnance found on Fort Totten Trail in the District of Columbia. Norton requested the meeting.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she is disappointed that President Biden did not mention statehood for the District of Columbia in his State of the Union address last night. While the Biden administration has strongly endorsed D.C. statehood, Biden, as president, has never discussed D.C. statehood publicly himself. Norton has personally spoken to the White House about the importance of Biden speaking up for D.C. statehood, including in last night’s State of the Union address.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her virtual guests for tonight’s State of the Union address will be several strong advocates for statehood for the District of Columbia, including the executive director of DC Vote, a co-founder of Neighbors United for D.C. Statehood, the executive director of Students United for D.C. Statehood, the chair of Howard University’s Political Science Department, and two Howard University seniors. Members of Congress typically bring a guest from their districts to attend the State of the Union address to highlight an important issue. Due to COVID, members are not allowed to bring a guest this year, so Norton chose to invite several virtual guests who are advocates for D.C. statehood.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called on President Biden to advocate for statehood for the District of Columbia in tomorrow’s State of the Union address. While the Biden administration has strongly endorsed D.C. statehood, President Biden, as president, has never discussed D.C. statehood publicly himself. Norton has personally spoken to the White House about the importance of Biden speaking up for D.C. statehood, including in the State of the Union address.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Today, at approximately 4:00 p.m., Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will manage bills on the House floor.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, and D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson unveiled D.C.’s second statue in the U.S. Capitol. The statue is of Pierre L’Enfant, which D.C. commissioned more than a decade ago with the hope that it would one day be displayed in the Capitol. Because each state is entitled to two statues in the Capitol, Norton said today is a symbolic step toward statehood for the almost 700,000 residents of the nation’s capital.