Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today’s Committee on Oversight and Reform (COR) hearing on her District of Columbia statehood bill (H.R. 51) made the case for the bill, including satisfactorily answering the many constitutional, technical, ideological, and philosophical questions. The witnesses included D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, Interim D.C. Chief Financial Officer Dr. Fitzroy Lee, Congressional Research Service Legislative Attorney Mainon Schwartz, D.C. veteran Harry Wingo, and Interim President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Wade Henderson. Norton said she appreciated the testimony from all of today’s witnesses.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her opening statement, as prepared for delivery, from today’s Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on her District of Columbia statehood bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her remarks from her press conference today with Committee on Oversight and Reform (COR) Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) on the District of Columbia statehood bill. The press conference was held in advance of the COR hearing today on Norton’s D.C. statehood bill (H.R. 51), which begins at 11 a.m. Carper is the sponsor of the Senate companion bill (S. 51).

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Senator Mike Braun, and Senator Kyrsten Sinema have reintroduced a bill aimed at fixing a broken system burdening teachers with unfair loans: the Consider Teachers Act of 2021.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that she is looking forward to the press conference before Monday’s hearing on her D.C. statehood bill, H.R. 51, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, which she is holding with Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD), and Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), the sponsor of the Senate companion bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the response from the National Park Service (NPS) to her letter dated December 10, 2020, asking that more resources be devoted to NPS parkland east of the Anacostia River to ensure a welcoming, accessible and clean environment for park visitors.

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released additional rules for fiscal year 2022 Community Project Funding, formerly known as earmarks. On March 9, Norton released the rules issued by the House Appropriations Committee for the funding and the process for submitting a request to her office. Subsequently, the Appropriations subcommittees that are accepting requests released additional rules on the types of projects that are eligible for funding, which are more restrictive than the original rules. The rules for each such subcommittee can be found here.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday, March 22, 2021, at 10:00 a.m., Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, and Senator Tom Carper will hold a press conference on H.R. 51, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act. Norton first introduced a D.C. statehood bill in 1991. Carper is the lead author of the Senate companion bill.