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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her remarks from today’s press conference with a coalition of more than 50 local D.C. groups calling on Congress to keep its hands off D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced her bill to require the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to place D.C. residents serving sentences for D.C. Code felonies in BOP facilities within 250 miles of D.C. Under the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997, individuals serving sentences for D.C. Code felonies are in BOP custody. Last October, Norton met with the new Director of BOP, Colette Peters, to discuss this bill as well as BOP's treatment of District of Columbia residents in BOP custody.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, May 16th, at 9:00 a.m., Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), together with a local coalition of D.C. residents, will hold a press conference at the House Triangle calling on the House and Senate to keep their hands off D.C. On Tuesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold a hearing on D.C. titled, “Overdue Oversight of the Capital City: Part II,” and the Senate is expected to vote on a disapproval resolution that, if enacted, would nullify D.C.’s policing reform legislation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wrote to the U.S. Botanic Garden requesting it begin displaying marijuana for the first time after the Botanic Garden recently displayed hemp for the first time in its history. Norton had previously requested that the Botanic Garden display hemp.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After more than 100 deaths due to recent election-related violence in Nigeria, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY), and Congressman Marc Veasey (D-TX) led 23 members of Congress in urging Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to designate the country for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). TPS designation would allow Nigerian nationals in the U.S. to temporarily remain instead of returning to Nigeria amid the country’s ongoing armed conflict.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and Congressman Glenn Ivey (D-MD) today led 15 members of Congress, including the entire National Capital Region delegation, in urging the Biden administration to provide robust funding and an expedited timeline for the Union Station Expansion Project (USEP), which would more than double the station’s current capacity.

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.