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July 29, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that President Biden today announced his intent to nominate Judge Todd Edelman, an Associate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Norton recommended Edelman to Biden. Norton’s first two recommendations to Biden for the U.S. District Court for D.C., Jia Cobb and Florence Pan, were confirmed by the Senate, and her third recommendation, Ana Reyes, is pending before the Senate.
July 29, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) secured a historic home-rule victory in the Senate Committee on Appropriations’ fiscal year 2023 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, released today, which allows D.C. to spend its local funds under the Local Budget Autonomy Act (BAA). This is the first time the Senate’s D.C. appropriations bill has recognized the BAA. The bill contains many other victories for D.C., including $40 million for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG), a program a Norton bill created; increased annual and lifetime DCTAG awards; and no anti-home-rule riders.
July 28, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), and Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA) announced that 11 reports accompanying the House’s fiscal year 2023 appropriations bills include their language directing federal agencies to report on advertising contracts with small disadvantaged businesses and businesses owned by minorities and women in their budget justifications. The members recently joined colleagues in sending a letter to the Government Accountability Office on the topic.
July 28, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) secured a historic home-rule victory in the Senate Committee on Appropriations’ fiscal year 2023 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, released today, which allows D.C. to spend its local funds under the Local Budget Autonomy Act (BAA). This is the first time the Senate’s D.C. appropriations bill has recognized the BAA. The bill contains many other victories for D.C., including $40 million for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG), a program a Norton bill created; increased annual and lifetime DCTAG awards; and no anti-home-rule riders.
July 27, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — At today’s House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) highlighted the unique risk to the District of Columbia’s gun violence prevention laws. Without statehood, D.C. could have its gun violence prevention laws, including its bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, overturned by a Republican Congress.
July 27, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the co-chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus and a member of the Subcommittee on Aviation, announced that a trial helicopter noise reporting system is now operational in the National Capital Region (NCR). The trial system is run by the Eastern Region Helicopter Council and the Helicopter Association International. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will evaluate the results of the trial system.
July 26, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources last week passed her Women Who Worked on the Home Front World War II Memorial Act, which would establish a memorial on federal land in the District of Columbia to honor the 18 million American women who kept the home front running during World War II. The House passed the bill last year. The Senate companion bill is sponsored by Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
July 25, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) led a letter today to the Government Accountability Office requesting a comprehensive examination of the new Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) online system after hearing from constituents about problems with the system, including account access, account balances, missing or incomplete information in their accounts, and hours-long wait times to reach customer service.
July 25, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced she will introduce a bill to reduce federal employee pay compression. This bill would allow federal employees who reach the pay cap in their respective pay system to receive the base and locality pay adjustments they would otherwise be entitled to. Currently, federal employees who reach the pay cap do not receive such adjustments. Norton is a senior member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, which has jurisdiction over federal employees.
July 25, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter urging the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) not to try to recoup money from current and former federal and District of Columbia employees who, as D.C. National Guard (DCNG) members, did not have their civilian pay offset by the pay they received from the DCNG when they took encampment leave. DoD and OPM have indicated these members should have had their civilian pay offset by their DCNG pay during encampment leave, including leave related to the coronavirus pandemic and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and may soon try to recoup it.