Press Releases
January 7, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a January 6th vigil, where participants were invited to speak on any of four pending voting rights bills, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) used the occasion to call for recommitting the nation to making the District of Columbia the 51st state.
January 6, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that she would defeat the effort by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) to block a bill recently passed by the Council of the District of Columbia that requires students to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Cruz, who yesterday announced his intention to introduce a bill to block the mandate, is the fourth member of Congress to try to block a D.C. vaccine policy this Congress.
January 6, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including calling for Congress to give the District of Columbia mayor control over the D.C. National Guard.
January 5, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that she will reintroduce her McIntire-Stennis Act District of Columbia Equality Act this week. The bill would make the District of Columbia eligible for federal funding that supports forestry research under the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act. Currently, the states and three territories are eligible for the funding.
January 4, 2022
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today renewed her vow to defeat an anti-home-rule bill introduced by Congressman Pat Fallon (R-TX) that would prohibit the District of Columbia from requiring an individual to present documentation of COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of entering any building, facility or other venue in D.C. When this bill was introduced in August 2021, D.C. had no such requirement, but starting January 15, proof of COVID-I9 vaccination will be required to enter many facilities in D.C., including restaurants.
January 3, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the District of Columbia faces a rare snowstorm, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a statement today reminding D.C. residents that her annual provision in the Legislative Branch. Appropriations bill allows sledding on Capitol Hill. While Capitol Police has temporarily closed the West Front of the Capitol due to falling branches, she anticipates it will reopen to pedestrians, and sledders, later today.
December 16, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reintroduced a bill that would add the District of Columbia to the national empowerment zone program to provide federal tax incentives for businesses to locate and invest in low-income areas in the District. This bill effectively would restore many of the federal tax incentives for investment in low-income D.C. neighborhoods that a Norton bill created in 1997, but that Congress let expire in 2011. Norton’s previous tax incentives bill produced significant investment in the District. Today’s bill is particularly focused on Wards 5, 7 and 8, where the need is greatest. Norton said that since Congress continues to extend the national empowerment zone program, D.C. neighborhoods that need the incentives should be able to participate in it.
December 15, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced she has introduced a resolution condemning voter suppression laws enacted by the states.
December 14, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C.–– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her remarks from this morning's press conference with District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announcing D.C.'s lawsuit against the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and others for damages D.C. incurred during the January 6th insurrection.
December 14, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today she has reintroduced her District of Columbia Courts Home Rule Act, which would give the Council of the District of Columbia authority over the jurisdiction and organization of the local D.C. courts. The D.C. Home Rule Act expressly prohibits D.C. from enacting any law with respect to any provision of the D.C. Code that relates to the jurisdiction and organization of the local D.C. courts. Congress can give D.C. this authority even before the District becomes the 51st state. This is the fourth bill Norton has introduced this Congress to improve the local D.C. courts. She has introduced bills to increase the pay of local D.C. jurors, expedite appointments of local D.C. judges and prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ local D.C. jurors, the latter two of which have been passed by the Committee on Oversight and Reform.