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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill today to require the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to install security cameras at all USPS facilities to protect USPS employees, customers and property.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to President Biden, signed by 46 other members of Congress, urging creation of an interagency working group on climate change and migration that would better protect populations displaced by weather-related disasters and support efforts to build resilience in the United States and across the world. A 2021 White House report recommended the creation of a standing interagency policy process on Climate Change and Migration to coordinate the U.S.'s response to migration resulting from climate change, but such a process has yet to be established.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a resolution expressing support for the designation of May 1, 2023, as “D.C. Statehood Day” and calling for statehood for the District through enactment of her Washington, D.C. Admission Act.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) urged the House and Senate Armed Services Committees’ leadership to include the District of Columbia National Guard Home Rule Act, which would give the D.C. mayor control over the D.C. National Guard, in the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The D.C. National Guard Home Rule Act passed the House as part of the fiscal year 2023 NDAA, but Republicans blocked it in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, today introduced a bill to require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to submit recommendations to Congress on how to reduce train noise and vibrations near homes, as well as cost estimates for each recommendation. Train noise and vibrations negatively affect residents of the District of Columbia and of communities across the country.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Conversion Act of 2023 today. Since 1994, Norton has introduced a version of the bill, which would encourage the United States to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and redirect, upon certification that nuclear powers around the world have begun elimination of their nuclear weapons, the U.S.’s funding for nuclear weapons to health care, housing and addressing the climate crisis.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After the House passed a disapproval resolution to nullify D.C.’s policing reform legislation, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) vowed to defeat the undemocratic, paternalistic resolution in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) spoke on the House floor today in advance of the House vote on a disapproval resolution that, if passed by the House and Senate and signed by the president, would nullify the policing reform legislation passed by the D.C. Council.