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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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan requesting a correction to stenciling on the door of the Dorothy Height Post Office in the District of Columbia that mistakenly reads “Dorothy Heights.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wrote the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) today encouraging it to release as many District of Columbia Code felons as possible and as appropriate to home confinement, in light of the coronavirus pandemic. “BOP has an obligation to pay particular attention to D.C. Code felons, who are housed by BOP,” Norton wrote, “because the District has only limited authority over D.C. Code felons in BOP custody, most located many miles from the District, compared with states’ authority over prisoners in their state prisons.” BOP houses D.C. Code felons, the only local offenders required to be housed by BOP.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter she sent to Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan asking for an inquiry into mail delivery delays in the District of Columbia’s Ward 8. Norton’s office has received complaints recently that constituents are going days without receiving mail only for mail to be delivered all at once, and reports of mail deliveries happening late at night.