Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her District of Columbia priorities were included in the version of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 that the Senate passed today. The $1.9 trillion bill includes provisions uniquely vital to the District, including state-, city-, and county-level fiscal relief for the District, since D.C. provides each level of service, and $755 million in retroactive CARES Act fiscal relief to fix D.C.’s treatment as a territory instead of a state for fiscal relief in the CARES Act, as D.C. is almost always treated as a state for federal funding purposes. The bill provides D.C. an estimated $2.2 billion in fiscal relief. The House is expected to pass the bill next week.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that, due to a change in the House calendar, the Committee on Oversight and Reform (COR) hearing on her District of Columbia statehood bill (H.R. 51) has been rescheduled from March 11, 2021, to March 22, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. Norton thanked COR Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) for her leadership on D.C. statehood and for prioritizing the bill early in this Congress.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), along with other Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure leaders, met with President Joe Biden and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg at the White House yesterday to discuss transportation and infrastructure. Norton, who chairs the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, thanked Biden for placing transportation and infrastructure at the top of his agenda, and said the meeting covered, among other topics, the issues she spoke about: transit investment as part of the COVID-19 economic recovery, reducing the number of cars on roads by encouraging and maintaining public transportation, and helping the environment by providing convenient, inexpensive, climate-friendly transit options.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement condemning a bill introduced by Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) that would repeal District of Columbia regulations on education requirements for staff at child development facilities. This is the second anti-D.C. bill Lee has introduced this Congress and the first bill Mace has ever introduced in Congress.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter urging the National Guard Bureau and the District of Columbia National Guard to direct the drivers of the buses that wait at the RFK Stadium site in D.C. to transport National Guard troops to and from the U.S. Capitol complex to stop idling their engines while waiting. Under D.C. law, bus engines are prohibited from idling for more than three minutes unless the temperature is 32 degrees or below.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued the following statement on the death of her longtime friend Vernon Jordan.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) applauded today’s House passage of the For the People Act of 2021 (H.R. 1), a sweeping democracy reform bill that includes findings supporting statehood for the District of Columbia. Last Congress, when the House passed the For the People Act of 2019 (H.R. 1), it became the first chamber to ever endorse D.C. statehood. That laid the groundwork for House passage of the D.C. statehood bill (H.R. 51) in June, which was the first time either chamber had ever passed the D.C. statehood bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) announced that their Federal Police Camera and Accountability Act, which would require uniformed federal police officers, including U.S. Capitol Police, to wear body cameras and have dashboard cameras in marked vehicles, passed the House today as part of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. The District of Columbia and Fairfax County both require their uniformed officers to wear body cameras and have dashboard cameras in marked vehicles.