Press Releases
February 1, 2022
WASHINGTON. D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, announced the subcommittee will hold a hearing, titled “The Road Ahead for Automated Vehicles,” on Wednesday, February 2, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will examine how the deployment of automated vehicles affects safety, infrastructure, and the commercial driving workforce.
January 31, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the Committee on Oversight and Reform will mark up her bill that would require the Commanding General of the District of Columbia National Guard, a federal official, to live in the District of Columbia. The markup will occur at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 2, 2022, and will be livestreamed on the committee’s website.
January 31, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today highlighted the legislative progress on her bills this Congress. She has introduced 80 bills so far this Congress.
January 25, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the response she received from the United States Postal Service (USPS) to her January 12, 2022, letter regarding USPS layoffs amid District of Columbia-wide mail delivery problems. In that letter, Norton inquired why such layoffs had occurred.
January 25, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of Columbia Special Elections Home Rule Act, which would give the District complete authority to set the date of special elections for local offices, as other jurisdictions already have. The bill simply removes a limitation on the District that is not only inconsistent with the self-government authority otherwise granted by the Home Rule Act, but is also counterproductive. This bill would strengthen the District’s home-rule authority and does not require statehood.
January 24, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the federal tax filing season kicks off today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) reminded the American public that the District of Columbia pays more federal taxes per capita than any state and more federal taxes overall than 21 states, but that D.C. residents do not have the voting representation in Congress or the full local self-government accorded to residents of the 50 states. Norton said that the remedy is for the Senate to pass her House-passed D.C. statehood bill.
January 24, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, will hold a virtual town hall on Thursday, January 27, 2022, at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom. The town hall will focus on road safety for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, drivers, and scooter users.
January 20, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) for filing cloture today on seven local District of Columbia court nominees, setting up confirmation votes for when the Senate returns from recess. The local D.C. courts are facing an unprecedented vacancy crisis, which is harming public safety and access to justice, because Republicans have prevented the Senate from confirming any local D.C. court nominees this Congress. Historically, local D.C. court nominees generally have been confirmed by voice vote.
January 20, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today listed the more than 20 Republican attempts to overturn District of Columbia laws and policies so far this Congress and reiterated her pledge to continue defeating these attacks.
January 20, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reintroduced the District of Columbia Government Title Equality Act, which would redesignate the Mayor of the District of Columbia as the Governor, the D.C. Council as the Legislative Assembly, the D.C. Councilmembers as Representatives, and the Chair of the Council as the Speaker. These are the titles used in the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth constitution, which the District adopted in 2016 in anticipation of passage of a bill to make D.C. the 51st state. Norton introduced the bill to highlight to the American people and Members of Congress that there would be a seamless transition to D.C. statehood because D.C. residents pay full federal taxes and D.C. operates as the functional equivalent of a state, providing state-, county- and city-level services, despite being denied voting representation in the House and Senate and full local self-government.