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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton successfully got three provisions vital to the District of Columbia included in the Heroes Act, the phase-five coronavirus response bill passed today in the House. Norton secured state-, city-, and county-level funding for the District; $755 million in retroactive funding to fix D.C.’s treatment as a territory instead of a state in the CARES Act; and authorization for D.C. to participate in the Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) the Federal Reserve is establishing.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House Rules Committee today passed her amendment to the House’s fifth coronavirus response bill, the Heroes Act, clarifying that District of Columbia Code offenders in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) are eligible for early release during the coronavirus. The introduced version of the Heroes Act made individuals meeting certain age and health criteria eligible for early release during the coronavirus, but was silent on whether this provision applied only to federal offenders in BOP or to both federal and D.C. Code offenders in BOP. Norton thanked House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) for working with her on the amendment. The House is expected to vote on the Heroes Act, as amended by Norton’s amendment, tomorrow.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today issued the following remembrance upon learning of the passing of Barbara Babcock on April 18. Babcock had an unequaled career as a public official, law professor, and lawyer dedicated to justice for poor defendants.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that in the fifth coronavirus response bill, the Heroes Act, introduced by House Democrats today, she has gotten $755 million in retroactive CARES Act funding for the District of Columbia, in addition to prospective equal funding for D.C. at the state, city, and county, levels in the Heroes Act. In addition, the bill authorizes D.C.’s participation in the Municipal Liquidity Facility the Federal Reserve is establishing to support short-term borrowing by states, cities and counties in response to the coronavirus.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked the United States Postal Service (USPS) for its timely response to her May 1, 2020, letter regarding mail delivery in Ward 8, which she sent after being notified by constituents of late mail deliveries.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a statement responding to President Trump’s assertion that the District of Columbia “will never be a state” because Republicans are not “stupid.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced she has requested that the next coronavirus response bill include her provision that would authorize the District of Columbia to participate in the Municipal Liquidity Facility (MLF) the Federal Reserve is establishing to support short-term borrowing by states, cities and counties in response to the coronavirus. D.C. is expressly authorized to participate in the MLF under the Federal Reserve’s rules, but the D.C. Home Rule Act’s borrowing provisions do not authorize D.C. to participate. The MLF is partially funded by the third coronavirus response bill, the CARES Act, meaning the CARES Act discriminated against D.C. twice, once intentionally and once inadvertently. The intentional discrimination occurred when Senate Republicans and the White House insisted on treating D.C. as a territory instead of a state in the Coronavirus Relief Fund, depriving D.C. of $755 million, even though D.C. is almost always treated as a state for federal funding.