Press Releases
February 28, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), and the other Democratic members of the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, Ranking Member Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), Greg Casar (D-Texas), and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), sent a letter to Elon Musk, opening an investigation into DOGE.gov following two recent incidents of alarming security failures and reports that DOGE employees shared sensitive government information using insecure communications channels.
February 25, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After the midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) that killed 67 people, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wrote Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth urging the Department of Defense (DoD) to permanently cease transporting VIPs in the National Capital Region (NCR) by helicopter, with exceptions for the president, vice president and in national emergencies.
February 24, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill today to allow individuals who are 70 and older to opt out of jury duty in the D.C. Superior Court.
February 20, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that President Trump’s derogatory comments calling for a federal “takeover” of D.C. are anti-democratic, based on misinformation, and belittling to the 700,000 residents of the nation’s capital.
February 18, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill to expand the mission of the National Park Service (NPS) to include active use of NPS parks in urban areas in addition to preservation. The idea for the bill came from a George Washington University report that examined strategies to create a more activated park system in D.C., which noted that NPS parks in D.C. are “inconsistently managed and inequitably maintained” and “do not meet the needs of people who both live near and experience the park system as a part of their daily lives.”
February 18, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After receiving recent reports that the Department of Defense (DoD) has asserted that ADS-B, a type of transponder used to communicate GPS data and project aircraft trajectory, is enabled on DoD helicopter flights in the National Capital Region, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wrote Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to reconcile the reporting with contradictory information she received nearly two years ago.
February 14, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) celebrated what is recognized as famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass' 206th birthday. Like many enslaved, Douglass did not know his birthday, but he celebrated it on Valentine’s Day. Norton’s D.C. statehood bill would name the 51st state “Washington, Douglass Commonwealth” in honor of Douglass, a longtime D.C. resident committed to the advocacy of equal rights for the District.
February 14, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement after President Trump signed an executive order to cut federal employees, limit future federal hires to one for every four departing employees, and require federal agencies to work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The order says each agency will now have a "DOGE Team Lead.”
February 11, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that news that Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Congressman Andrew Ogles (R-TN) have introduced bills to repeal the District of Columbia Home Rule Act is a sign of the significant progress that D.C. has made toward statehood.
February 11, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a bill to amend Title 1 of the United States Code to deem D.C. as both a state and political subdivision of a state – such as a city or county – for federal funding eligibility.