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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement today in response to three anti-District of Columbia statehood bills introduced in the House during the last two weeks. Two of the three bills push to retrocede D.C. to Maryland. The third bill purports to limit the composition of the Senate to senators who are from states admitted to the Union prior to the 116th Congress, the current Congress.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) response to the letter [link] she sent demanding BOP work closer with the D.C. Board of Elections (BOE) to ensure D.C. inmates in BOP, who are now eligible to vote, are registered to vote. Norton wrote to BOP after learning that BOP had not provided BOE information on where inmates were housed. D.C. recently enacted legislation making incarcerated felons eligible to vote.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and U.S. Representatives John Sarbanes (D-MD), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Anthony Brown (D-MD), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), and David Trone (D-MD) issued the following statement today: “We represent the people of the National Capital Region. We are alarmed and dismayed by the casual disregard for the health of our community, including constituents who work at the White House as staff, agents or officers of the United States Secret Service, journalists of the White House Correspondents Association, and the general public.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to Dr. Sean Conley, physician to the President and head of the White House Medical Unit, expressing concern about the failure of the White House to provide contact tracing during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak among staff, visitors, and the President himself. In her letter, Norton says that the District of Columbia has worked hard to become among the best at coronavirus containment, but the lax way the White House has responded to the outbreak and its failure to do contact tracing threaten D.C. residents.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former tenured professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, today released the following statement on the constitutional amendment introduced by Congressman Mark Walker (R-NC) regarding Senate representation. The amendment would state, “The Senate of the United States shall be composed of Senators who are from States admitted to the Union prior to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress.” (The 116th Congress, the current Congress, ends in January 2021.)

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who has sought long-term investment to maintain the three public golf courses in the District of Columbia, today celebrated the announcement that the National Park Service (NPS) has signed a 50-year lease with National Links Trust (NLT) to operate the three historic golf courses here, which are all owned by NPS. NLT will begin management of the East Potomac, Langston and Rock Creek golf courses today.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she was especially pleased that the House yesterday passed her Women Who Worked on the Home Front World War II Memorial Act. During the debate on the bill, Norton paid tribute to her constituent Raya Kenney, who was a student when she brought the idea to Norton and is now set to raise funds to establish the memorial on federal land in the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her District of Columbia priorities were included in the updated Heroes Act, which the House passed yesterday. The $2.2 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; $755 million in retroactive CARES Act fiscal relief to fix D.C.’s treatment as a territory instead of a state in the CARES Act, considering that D.C. is almost always treated as a state for federal funding; and authorization for D.C. to participate in the Federal Reserve’s Municipal Liquidity Facility. These three D.C. provisions were also included in the original House-passed Heroes Act.