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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reintroduced her bill to guarantee back pay to low-wage federally contracted retail, food, custodial and security service workers not getting paid during the current federal government shutdown (fiscal year 2019).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was grateful to her friend Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for her strong public statement today in support of Norton’s bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act (H.R. 51).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton got a breakthrough findings section supporting District of Columbia statehood included in the House Democrats’ major democracy reform legislation, H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2019.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her prepared remarks from a press conference today with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson on the introduction of H.R. 51, Norton’s bill to make the District the 51st state.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (D-MA) and the House Democratic leadership for restoring the District of Columbia’s vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole in the rules package for the 116th Congress.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the Washington, D.C. Admission Act (H.R. 51) to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, her first bill of the 116th Congress. She introduced the bill with 156 original cosponsors, a new record, up from the previous record Norton set in the 115th Congress (116).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a press conference with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson to announce the introduction of H.R. 51, her bill to make the District the 51st state, on Friday, January 4, 2019, at 11:00 a.m., in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building (Committee on Oversight and Reform).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released Norton’s letter to United States Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General Megan Brennan regarding widespread complaints of inconsistent and failed mail delivery and a lack of USPS responsiveness in the District of Columbia.