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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House’s fiscal year (FY) 2021 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, released today, contains most of her top policy and funding priorities.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her testimony from last week’s Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee hearing on District of Columbia statehood. The hearing was held three business days after the House passed her D.C. statehood bill, which was the first time either chamber of Congress had passed the D.C. statehood bill since the District was established 219 years ago.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Tom Carper (D-DE) for filing an amendment to the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which the Senate is considering on the floor this week, to give the District of Columbia mayor control over the D.C. National Guard. The President controls the D.C. National Guard, while the governors of the states and territories control their respective National Guards. This issue was raised again when the Trump administration deployed federal police, the D.C. National Guard and out-of-state National Guard troops on D.C. streets, without the mayor's consent, in response to largely peaceful protests. Norton, whose D.C. statehood bill passed in the House on Friday, has long fought for D.C. to have control over its local affairs, including the D.C. National Guard, a home-rule issue that does not require statehood.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) will hold a virtual hearing entitled “Statehood and Equality for Washington, D.C.” tomorrow, Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at 3:00 p.m. on the heels of House passage of the District of Columbia statehood bill (H.R. 51) last Friday. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the author of H.R. 51, will testify. Also testifying will be D.C. Mayor Muriel Bower; Monica Hopkins, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C.; Rick Lee, owner of Lee’s Flower and Card Shop; and James Nelson Rimensnyder, veteran and lifelong D.C. resident.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent an open letter to the District of Columbia's LGBTQ community in celebration of Pride Month. Norton, who is celebrating this month's Supreme Court decision prohibiting employers from discriminating against employees for being gay or transgender, has participated in the District’s Pride festivities since 1990. Norton has been an outspoken ally of the LGBTQ community since being elected to Congress.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After managing the debate on the District of Columbia statehood bill (H.R. 51) on the House floor, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) celebrated House passage of the bill today with House leadership and her colleagues following overwhelming support by 232 Democrats, most of them cosponsors of the bill. The bill had 227 cosponsors, more than enough to guarantee passage. Neither chamber of Congress had passed the bill before.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today managed the historic debate on the House floor on her District of Columbia statehood bill (H.R. 51). In her opening statement on the bill, Norton said, “As we approach July 4th, it is long past time to apply the nation’s oldest slogan, ‘no taxation without representation’ and the principle of consent of the government to D.C. residents.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that she will introduce legislation to remove the Andrew Jackson statue from Lafayette Park in the District of Columbia, citing Jackson’s ownership of slaves and genocide of Native Americans.