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February 10, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her remarks from today’s address to the American Federation of Government Employees Legislative Conference.

Norton’s full remarks, as prepared for delivery follow.

 


February 10, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced their bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the approximately 200,000 African Americans who fought to preserve the Union during the Civil War. The bill introduction coincides with Black History Month.


February 6, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her remarks from yesterday’s speech on the House floor in defense of federal employees, who are suffering continued attacks from the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress.


February 5, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her remarks from today’s rally to protest the Department of Governmental Efficiency interference at the Department of Labor.

February 5, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Gary Peters (D-MI) today introduced the Words Matter for the District of Columbia Courts Act, which would remove the term “retarded” from Title 11 of the District of Columbia Code and replace it with more appropriate and respectful terminology. Under the D.C. Home Rule Act, only Congress can amend Title 11 of the D.C. Code.

February 3, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement today regarding federal employees: “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the ongoing, and often illegal and unconstitutional, attacks against our federal workforce. Today’s attempted illegal gutting of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is just the most recent in a long line of attacks on federal employees, now only two weeks into the current Administration.

January 30, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Mike Ezell (R-MS) announced they will reintroduce a bipartisan bill to equip the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) with the necessary tools to protect consumers from fraud perpetrated by scammers in the interstate transportation of household goods.


January 30, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a statement today expressing her condolences to those involved in the tragic mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport (DCA) last night and vowed to investigate the circumstances of the incident.


January 28, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill today to require the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to provide information to the District of Columbia government on individuals convicted of D.C. Code felonies housed in BOP custody to help ensure that D.C. has services ready for these individuals when they return home from BOP.


January 21, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced the District of Columbia Federal Officials Residency Requirement Equality Act, which would require federal district court judges, federal circuit court judges, the U.S. Attorney, the two U.S. Marshals and the federal court clerk who serve D.C. to reside in D.C., just as such officials are required to do in other jurisdictions.