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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton will testify today at a House hearing on her bill to remove the Albert Pike statue from federal land in the District of Columbia and released her testimony. “General Albert Pike was probably the worst of the memorialized Confederates,” Norton said. “He slaughtered Union troops, a war crime, stole funds and was captured by his own troops. His statue should be preserved in a museum, where it can be properly interpreted.” The Pike statue was taken down by a crowd during a demonstration on June 19, 2020, but President Trump has indicated he intends to put the statue back up. The hearing is being held by the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands at 10 a.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today listed major victories for the District of Columbia in the House Appropriations Committee-passed fiscal year (FY) 2021 appropriations bills.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released Norton’s testimony on her Veterans Legal Support Act of 2019, which would authorize funds for law school clinical programs to assist veterans filing for and appealing Department of Veterans Affairs claims for benefits and with other legal matters. Norton, who taught law as a tenured professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, cited as the need for her bill the 400,000 veterans waiting for claims to be processed. Norton testified Thursday before the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. Norton testified that the bill would help to meet the demand for legal services at little cost to the federal government.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who was a colleague of the late Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) first in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and then in the House of Representatives, issued a statement today on the passing of her friend.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced yesterday that she was able to include in the House’s Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (WRDA), the major water infrastructure bill, a provision that would help accelerate the cleanup of harmful sediments in and around the federal navigation channel in the Anacostia River. The provision changes the parameters in terms of depth and coordinates of the federal navigation channel. The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed WRDA yesterday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In light of interest in the highways and transit provisions of the Moving Forward Act (H.R. 2), which the House passed 233 to 188 earlier this month, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today laid out major wins for the District of Columbia and the nation in H.R. 2. Numerous areas, ranging from typical matters like bridge and highway funding to new funding for congestion reduction, climate change and innovation, make the highways and transit provisions of H.R. 2 a clean break from prior bills. As Chair of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, Norton played a leading role in writing the bill, which, in addition to containing unprecedented provisions on schools, housing and broadband access, is the vehicle for the reauthorization of major programs related to highways, bridges, transit and rail.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), and Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) announced that they received a response this week for the National Park Service (NPS) to their November 2019 letter to the United States Park Police (USPP) asking for an update on the investigation into the 2017 killing of Bijan Ghaisar, who was unarmed, by USPP officers.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has extended the comment period for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Washington Union Station Expansion Project until September 28, 2020. Last month, Norton joined a number of District of Columbia stakeholders, including Advisory Neighborhood Commission 6C, Federal City Council, Akridge, the D.C. Department of Transportation, the D.C. Office of Planning, Ward 6 D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson in requesting an extension of the original comment period deadline of July 27, 2020.