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July 30, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to remove a statue of Confederate General Albert Pike from federal land near Judiciary Square in the District of Columbia.

July 30, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced her support for the House Judiciary Committee’s efforts to obtain the unredacted Mueller Report and said that an impeachment inquiry is necessary to consider whether the President should be impeached.

July 29, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform has rescheduled the hearing on Norton’s District of Columbia statehood bill (H.R. 51) for 10:00 a.m. on September 19, 2019, in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.

July 27, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C – As the House departed for August recess, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement urging Democrats to bring their winning agenda in the House Majority into sharp focus at home where it counts.

July 26, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) had a very rare opportunity to speak to a national audience about statehood for the District of Columbia at this year’s Netroots Nation in Philadelphia.

July 26, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that President Trump yesterday signed into law Norton’s Fairness for Breastfeeding Mothers Act, which requires buildings that are either federally owned or leased to provide designated private, hygienic lactation spaces for nursing mothers visiting such buildings.

July 26, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of Columbia Bridges Home Rule Act, which would repeal a redundant 1997 federal law that makes it a crime for a person in D.C. to obstruct any bridge connecting D.C. and Virginia.

July 25, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Donald S. Beyer (D-VA) announced today that they have introduced the Allowing Body Cameras in Joint Task Forces Act of 2019, which would prohibit the federal government from refusing to work with local police departments that require their officers to wear body cameras.

July 25, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she looks forward to tonight’s meeting at 6:00 p.m. with the National Park Service (NPS), which will be the first in an ongoing series of regular meetings between District of Columbia residents and NPS.

July 23, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today she will introduce a bill to require the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) headquarters to be located in the National Capital Region (NCR).