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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced the District of Columbia Federal Officials Residency Requirement Equality Act, which would require federal district court judges, federal circuit court judges, the U.S. Attorney, the two U.S. Marshals and the federal court clerk who serve D.C. to reside in D.C., just as such officials are required to do in other jurisdictions.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) called on Congress to pass her District of Columbia statehood bill (H.R. 51) and other important voting rights legislation. Norton’s bill would give D.C. full local self-government, a cause Dr. King championed, and voting representation in Congress.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) condemned a bill introduced by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) that would exempt certain organizations doing business in D.C. from registering with the District, the same requirement states regularly enforce. The bill appears to be politically motivated, introduced in response to a reported investigation by the D.C. Attorney General into a conservative legal activist for misusing charitable funds for the activist’s personal benefit.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her bill to revoke the independent real estate leasing authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and direct the Government Accountability Office to update its 2016 report on independent real estate leasing authority has passed the House. The House passed the bill for the first time in 2022.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill to create a local prosecutor's office, designated under local law, to prosecute all local crimes in the District of Columbia. Under federal law, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, a federal entity, is responsible for prosecuting almost all local crimes committed by adults here, the greater part of its caseload, in addition to prosecuting federal crimes. Norton noted that the territories of the United States all have local prosecutors to prosecute local crimes. Her bill would effectuate a 2002 advisory referendum, approved by 82 percent of D.C. voters, to create a local prosecutor's office.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) today announced the introduction of the District of Columbia statehood bill for the 119th Congress. Van Hollen is taking over the bill in the Senate after the retirement of the longtime Senate lead, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), who had introduced the Senate companion bill since 2013, retired at the end of the 118th Congress. The members thanked Carper for his longtime Senate leadership and advocacy, during which the first Senate hearing on the bill was held. The statehood bill passed the House for the first time in history in June of 2020 and passed again in April of 2021.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that President Biden signed into law her bipartisan bill with Rep. James Comer (R-KY) to transfer administrative jurisdiction over the RFK Stadium campus from the federal government to D.C. for a term not less than 99 years.