Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced her resolution to designate March 27, 2025 as “Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a statement tonight after President Trump signed an anti-D.C. home rule executive order (EO) establishing a task force to combat crime by surging law enforcement officers in public areas, increasing immigration enforcement, changing D.C. pre-trial detention policies, expediting concealed carry licenses, and working on fare enforcement on the Metro system. The EO also created a program to allegedly “beautify” D.C. by restoring federal buildings, monuments and roadways, removing graffiti, and ensuring cleanliness of public spaces and parks. Additionally, the EO directed the National Park Service to clear homeless encampments and graffiti on federal lands.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today highlighted the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) score on a Senate-passed bill to fix the D.C. budget issue caused by the recent continuing resolution (CR). As expected, the CBO found that the bill would have no effect on the federal budget. The CBO released its analysis yesterday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) was ranked the 10th most effective House Democrat in the 118th Congress, according to the biannual report released yesterday by the Center for Effective Lawmaking. Despite lacking the ability to vote on the House floor, Norton is consistently ranked in the top 10 Most Effective House Democrats. She has the longest streak of “exceeding expectations” over consecutive terms in the entire House, after qualifying for every term she’s served since she was first elected in 1991, whether Democrats were the minority or the majority party.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her statement from yesterday’s House Oversight and Accountability Committee markup of a bill that would nullify locally-enacted D.C. laws, policies and practices regarding D.C. exchanging information about the citizenship and immigration status of individuals, and would require D.C. to comply with requests by the Department of Homeland Security regarding immigration detainers.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ahead of Equal Pay Day on March 25th, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the first woman to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, introduced a bill to prohibit employers from asking for a job applicant’s salary history before making a job or salary offer.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a statement after the Senate voted to pass the continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government and separately passed a standalone bill giving the District of Columbia the authority to spend its local funds for Fiscal Year 2025 at its locally-enacted levels.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced she will hold a virtual town hall meeting on Tuesday, March 18 from 5-6:30 p.m. Although the event will focus on issues facing the federal workforce, it is open to all District of Columbia residents and the media. Norton, Managing Director of the Civil Service Strong & Good Governance Initiatives for Democracy Forward, Rob Shriver, and a representative from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) will be in attendance.