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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) congratulated Judge Florence Pan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on her approval today by the Senate Judiciary Committee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Norton recommended Pan to President Biden for the U.S. District Court for D.C. Pan is the second judge recommended by Norton to be approved for a higher court this year. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, whom Norton recommended to President Obama for the U.S. District Court for D.C., was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The next step for Judge Pan’s nomination is confirmation by the Senate.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her amendment to provide $1 million for law school clinical programs that provide pro bono legal assistance to veterans passed the House. Norton’s amendment is now part of the House’s fiscal year 2023 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. Norton was a tenured professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House today passed the fiscal year 2023 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, which includes $380 million she secured for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) consolidation project at the St. Elizabeths West Campus in the District of Columbia. Norton defeated an amendment filed by Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) that would have eliminated the funding.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the House passed the fiscal year 2023 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, which includes many victories secured by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). The bill, among other things, provides $40 million for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG), a program a Norton bill created, and increases the annual and lifetime DCTAG awards; prohibits the president from federalizing the D.C. police department; and removes the two enacted fiscal year 2022 riders, which prohibit D.C. from spending its local funds on abortion and on recreational marijuana commercialization.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will introduce an emergency appropriations bill for the current fiscal year (2022) to provide additional funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP). The funding will be designated for humanitarian assistance to migrants, including those being bused into the District of Columbia by Texas and Arizona.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that she defeated all the anti-home-rule amendments filed by Republicans in the Committee on Rules on the House’s fiscal year 2023 District of Columbia Appropriations bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that she defeated an amendment in the Committee on Rules to the House’s fiscal year 2023 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill that would have eliminated the $380 million she secured in the bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) consolidation project at the St. Elizabeths West Campus in the District of Columbia. Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) filed the amendment.