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October 6, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will introduce a bill to amend the recently enacted fiscal year 2023 continuing resolution (CR) to provide $50 million in emergency supplemental appropriations to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) for humanitarian assistance to migrants. Norton and colleagues sent a letter to the House Committee on Appropriations requesting that the CR provide this $50 million, but it was not included in the introduced version of the CR. Norton and colleagues then filed an amendment to the CR at the Committee on Rules to provide this $50 million, but the amendment was not made in order. The CR only provides funding for the EFSP at the fiscal year 2022 rate of operations.
October 5, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today applauded the Department of the Interior (DOI) for requiring its law enforcement officers to use body cameras and for updating its use-of-force policy, but expressed disappointment that DOI made dashboard cameras optional. Norton, along with Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), has led the effort in Congress to require federal law enforcement officers to use body and dashboard cameras. Norton noted that the new DOI policies are particularly important for the District of Columbia because U.S. Park Police officers have both federal and D.C. police powers.
October 4, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today met with the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Colette Peters, to discuss BOP’s treatment of District of Columbia residents in BOP custody, including the bill Norton will introduce to require 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.
October 3, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today expressed disappointment that the Senate last week effectively adjourned until November 14, 2022, without addressing the judicial vacancy crisis in the local District of Columbia courts. Currently, there are 14 vacancies out of 62 authorized judges on D.C.’s trial court, the Superior Court. There are two vacancies out of nine authorized judges on D.C.’s appeals court, the Court of Appeals.
September 29, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today condemned a bill introduced by Louie Gohmert (R-TX) that would give non-District of Columbia residents who are charged with committing a crime in D.C. the right to choose to have their trial in their home state. This right would appear to apply to crimes under both D.C. and federal law, but the bill does not define the term “criminal offense in the District of Columbia.”
September 28, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congressman Jesús G. “Chuy” García (D-IL), Congressman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) today expressed disappointment that the fiscal year (FY) 2023 continuing resolution (CR) does not provide increased funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) for humanitarian assistance to migrants. The members led colleagues in requesting that the CR provide $50 million above the enacted FY 2022 level for the EFSP for humanitarian assistance to migrants. The members committed to continue fighting for increased funding in the final FY 2023 appropriations bill.
September 27, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will meet next week with the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Colette Peters, and that she will introduce a bill that would require BOP to place District of Columbia 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.
September 27, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on abortion on Thursday, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will highlight how uniquely vulnerable the reproductive rights of District of Columbia residents are because Congress has control over D.C.’s local affairs. Currently, Congress prohibits D.C. from spending its local funds on abortion, even though 16 states use their own funds for this purpose. At the hearing, Norton will warn that a future Republican Congress could ban abortion in D.C.
September 26, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the possibility of a federal government shutdown on Friday, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reminded District of Columbia residents that a provision she got included in the enacted fiscal year (FY) 2022 D.C. Appropriations bill exempts the D.C. government from a federal government shutdown in FY 2023. Norton has gotten the D.C. government exempted from federal government shutdowns each year since FY 2015.
September 26, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) last week introduced a resolution that would support the designation of September 23, 2022, as “Mary Church Terrell Day,” recognizing Mary Church Terrell’s lasting contributions to the civil rights and women’s rights movements. Terrell moved to the District of Columbia in 1887 to become a teacher at M Street Colored High School, now known as Dunbar High School, which is Norton’s alma mater.