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March 1, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the Center for Effective Lawmaking ranked Norton as the most effective House Democrat in the last Congress.
March 1, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the House is expected next week to debate and pass H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2019, which contains extensive findings calling on Congress to grant statehood to the District of Columbia.
February 28, 2019
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a cosponsor of the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 8), which requires universal background checks on gun sales and transfers, celebrated House passage of this historic gun violence prevention bill.
February 28, 2019
Washington, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, on which she serves, yesterday passed her bill that requires the Library of Congress to install the District of Columbia’s seal in the stained-glass windows of the Thomas Jefferson Building Main Reading Room.
February 28, 2019
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will manage her first special order time on the House floor for this session of Congress on statehood for the District of Columbia this afternoon, a day after D.C. residents came in record numbers to the Congress to ask Members to cosponsor the D.C. statehood bill.
February 22, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As black history is celebrated this month, the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released Norton’s letter to the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) requesting it recommend that USPS issue a commemorative stamp honoring civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
February 21, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will introduce legislation this week that would end the unique applicability of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) to the District of Columbia.
February 21, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released Norton’s letter to Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Acting Director Hugh J. Hurwitz requesting a list of all laws, rules, regulations, policies and programs applicable to federal offenders in BOP custody that are not applicable to D.C. Code felons in BOP custody.
February 15, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a leading proponent of back pay for federal contract workers, today decried President Trump’s blocking of back pay for these workers and said she is already seeking other avenues to get them back pay.
February 15, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Now that federal employees and federal contract workers do not have to fear a second government shutdown, the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she has asked the five major credit reporting companies not consider missed bill payments by federal employees and federal contract workers due to the government shutdown when calculating their credit scores.