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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act, the phase three coronavirus response bill introduced by House Democrats yesterday, provides the District of Columbia $11 million in supplemental fiscal year 2020 emergency planning and security funding for costs associated with the federal presence in the nation's capital.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to apply the First Step Act (Act), which was signed into law in 2018, to D.C. Code felons, especially in light of the coronavirus. The Act provides new best practices, such as increased access to compassionate release, for inmates in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Norton worked to get included in the Act a provision making clear that it applies to individuals convicted of felonies under D.C. law, the only local inmates housed by BOP, not only inmates convicted under federal law. However, despite repeated requests by Norton, DOJ and BOP have yet to apply the Act to D.C. Code felons.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to the Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Superior Court, Robert Morin, and the U.S. Marshal for the D.C. Superior Court, Anthony Dixon, expressing her concerns about reported practices that could lead to the transmission of the coronavirus at the Superior Court. Norton said that she was informed last night of troubling practices used by the marshals while handling inmates that could possibly spread the coronavirus to other detainees, marshals, court personnel and the public.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has sent a letter to David Vela, Acting Director of the National Park Service (NPS), expressing concern about the health of employees who continue to work at outdoor NPS properties during the coronavirus crisis.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to the United States Parole Commission (USPC) urging it to use its authority to protect, and in some cases release, individuals under its jurisdiction in light of the coronavirus. The vast majority of individuals under USPC’s jurisdiction are D.C. residents.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), Robert Wilkie, asking that the VA indefinitely suspend all timely filing deadlines for veterans and surviving family members with an Intent to File (ITF) submission.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) asking for a floor vote on her National Children’s Museum Act (H.R. 5919) or to include it in the next coronavirus stimulus bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management urging them to extend paid leave for teleworking federal employees to allow them to care for family members during the coronavirus pandemic.