Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today the victories for the District of Columbia she got in the Committee on Oversight and Reform’s (COR) portion of the coronavirus reconciliation bill, which will be marked up by the committee on Friday. COR’s portion of the bill provides $755 million in retroactive CARES Act fiscal relief to the District, and it treats D.C. as a state, city and county for new fiscal relief. The estimated total funding for D.C. in COR’s portion of the bill is over $2.2 billion. Last year, D.C. was deprived of $755 million when the CARES Act treated D.C. as a territory instead of a state for fiscal relief. Last Congress, Norton vowed to fight for the retroactive funding and for the treatment of D.C. as a state, city, and county for any new fiscal relief because D.C. provides each level of service, both of which she achieved in COR’s portion of the bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement today in response to the introduction of a bill by Representative Dusty Johnson (R-SD) that would retrocede most of the District of Columbia to Maryland.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, announced today that she got her priorities for transit in D.C. and the national capital region included in the coronavirus relief bill the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will mark up at 11 a.m. tomorrow.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) applauded the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) decision to “review and refine [Washington Union Station Expansion] project elements in cooperation with…key stakeholders.” This decision came after Norton was able to get a provision included in the report accompanying the fiscal year 2021 appropriations bill that directed FRA to continue working with the District of Columbia on the Union Station Expansion Project (Project) and to consider the feedback of all stakeholders, including residents of affected neighborhoods, in its planning process.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the second impeachment trial of former President Trump, which starts today, underscores the need for District of Columbia statehood, which would give the District the right to vote on impeachment and conviction in impeachment proceedings.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter she sent requesting that Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin withdraw the proposed rule restricting public access to the Washington Channel next to Fort McNair in the District of Columbia and prohibit the issuance of any similar proposed rule. Norton also announced she will introduce legislation to block this proposed rule. Norton hosted a public meeting on the proposed rule on January 27th, where D.C. residents overwhelmingly opposed the rule.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter to Chief Judge Anita M. Josey-Herring of the D.C. Superior Court asking for an increase in the court’s eviction filing fee and for the court to open a public comment period on the fee, the court last week announced a public comment period on the fee that will last until April 12, 2021. In Norton’s letter, she cited a study finding that the current $15 filing fee for evictions is $91 below the national median.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she’s pleased to continue to serve on the Committee on Oversight and Reform in the 117th Congress, particularly on the Subcommittee on Government Operations, which has jurisdiction over D.C.’s large number of federal employees, and the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.