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October 2, 2020
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.
October 2, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked Chairman Raúl Grijalva and the House Natural Resources Committee for passing her bill to permanently remove the statue of Confederate General Albert Pike from federal land near Judiciary Square in the District of Columbia. This is the final legislative step before House floor consideration of the bill.
October 1, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Judicial Nomination Task Force, and CBC Chair Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-CA), today released a letter they sent to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) opposing the consideration of any nominee to the Supreme Court before the next president is inaugurated.
October 1, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold a virtual event today, October 1, 2020, at 4:00 p.m. on listening and learning from leaders in the Latino community. Eleven members of Norton's Congressional Latino Council (CLC), which is comprised of prominent Latino leaders from organizations throughout the District of Columbia, will participate.
September 30, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that one of her top priorities, her National Children's Museum Act (H.R. 5919), passed in the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today. The bill would provide rent-free space to the National Children’s Museum (NCM) for the duration of its lease in the federally owned Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in the District of Columbia. Because the bill passed unanimously, Norton is optimistic about getting it through the House and Senate and signed into law.
September 30, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the letter she sent today calling on the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to share information with the District of Columbia Board of Elections (BOE) to make it easier for inmates to register to vote and to receive their ballots. D.C. recently enacted legislation making incarcerated felons eligible to vote. However, according to public reporting, BOP has not provided BOE information on where inmates are housed, which would help BOE send inmates registration forms and ballots.
September 28, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a statement responding to the revelations about how little President Trump paid in federal income taxes in recent years.
“The news about President Trump’s taxes yesterday – he paid a total of $750 in federal income taxes during his first year in office despite repeatedly bragging that he is a billionaire – makes his attacks on District of Columbia statehood even more outrageous,” Norton said. “At its core, the argument for D.C. statehood, which overwhelmingly passed in the House of Representatives in June, is the rallying cry of the Revolutionary War: ‘No taxation without representation.’
September 28, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold a virtual event tomorrow, September 29, 2020, at 4:00 p.m. with representatives from the advocacy groups Voto Latino and Unidos U.S. and from the D.C. Mayor's Office on Latino Affairs on the importance of the Latinx vote in 2020. The event will feature a conversation on the topic of voting.
September 28, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) reintroduced a resolution that would designate September 23rd as “Mary Church Terrell Day,” recognizing Mary Church Terrell’s lasting contributions to the civil rights and women’s rights movements. Mary Church Terrell, the daughter of freed slaves, moved to the District of Columbia in 1887 to become a teacher at M Street Colored High School, later known as Dunbar High School (Norton’s alma mater).
September 25, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressional Black Caucus Chair Congresswoman Karen Bass (D-CA) and Congressional Black Caucus Judicial Nominations Task Force Chair Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today issued the following statement regarding the current Supreme Court vacancy:
“Along with Americans throughout the country, we are devastated by the loss of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Justice Ginsburg devoted her life first to fighting for justice and equality and then on the Court to expanding equality and devoting herself to the fair application of the law. She exhibited all of the qualities that are so desperately needed on the Court today, including sound reasoning, the ability to work with those with whom one disagrees, compassion and empathy. Her death puts our nation at a critical juncture in American history regarding the future course not only for the Supreme Court, but also for the idea of the rule of law itself in our country, perhaps for decades to come. The only sound course so close to an election is for the Senate to postpone consideration of a nominee for this open seat until after the inauguration of the next president."