Press Releases
March 3, 2022
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.
March 3, 2022
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.
March 2, 2022
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.
March 1, 2022
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.
February 28, 2022
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.
February 28, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Today, at approximately 4:00 p.m., Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will manage bills on the House floor.
February 28, 2022
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.
February 27, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the reinstallation of temporary fencing around the U.S. Capitol today.
February 25, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, President Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. President Obama nominated Jackson to the U.S. District Court for D.C. on the recommendation of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). The Senate confirmed Jackson for the district court by voice vote.
February 25, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that the District of Columbia will score a historic victory for equality with the states on Monday, February 28, when D.C.’s second statue in the U.S. Capitol will be unveiled at a ceremony hosted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Norton, Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson will speak at the unveiling, which will begin at 10 a.m.