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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Quiet Skies Caucus, led by Co-Chairs Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA) and Vice Chairs Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY), today announced they secured four provisions to combat aircraft noise in the House’s fiscal year 2023 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. The provisions direct the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to engage with communities affected by aircraft noise, to prioritize the reduction of aircraft noise, to create a central repository for constituent complaints about aircraft noise, and to encourage the FAA to complete its ongoing evaluation of alternative metrics to current Day Night Level noise standards. The bill also provides support for all studies and programs directed at minimizing aircraft noise in affected communities.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced she will reintroduce her bill to expand AmeriCorps by 500,000 members. The bill would allow unemployed young people to earn a stipend and gain valuable work experience, and provide states and cities with personnel for badly needed services, such as afterschool programs, without requiring a new administrative structure or bureaucracy.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that she secured $580 million for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) consolidation project at the St. Elizabeths West Campus in the District of Columbia in the House’s fiscal year 2023 appropriations bills. The funding is included in the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill ($380 million) and the DHS Appropriations bill ($200 million), both of which the House Committee on Appropriations passed last Friday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today requested a meeting with the Executive Director of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB), which manages the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), to discuss the numerous, ongoing problems with the new TSP online system.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA), Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA), Representative Val Demings (D-FL), and Representative Grace Meng (D-NY) co-led a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting it issue another report on federal advertising contracts and subcontracts with small disadvantaged and minority-owned businesses.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last Friday, the House Committee on Appropriations 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) thanked Democrats on the House Committee on Appropriations for defeating an amendment to the fiscal year (FY) 2023 District of Columbia Appropriations bill that would have prohibited the District of Columbia from spending its local funds on abortion in FY 2023, which begins on October 1, 2022. The amendment, submitted by Representative Ashley Hinson (R-IA), was defeated on the same day that the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which presents a unique threat to abortion access in D.C. because of Congress’ plenary legislative authority over D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked the Committee on Rules, led by Chair James McGovern (D-MA), for defeating an amendment that would have repealed many of the District of Columbia’s gun violence prevention laws, including its bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and its universal background check requirement, and would have prohibited the D.C. Council from passing similar laws in the future.  The amendment, filed by Representative Ted Budd (R-NC) to the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, was defeated last Friday.