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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wrote the National Park Service (NPS) requesting information about the investigation into an automobile crash that killed two pedestrians at Hains Point last year. Norton wrote the letter after learning that NPS has refused to provide the families of the victims the driver’s name, which is necessary to file life insurance claims. Norton has long worked on getting more transparency from NPS, including in the 2017 shooting death of Bijan Ghaisar, who was unarmed, by U.S. Park Police officers.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy about reports of undelivered and delayed mail throughout the District of Columbia. In the letter, Norton said her office has not been receiving timely responses on cases referred to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that President Biden today nominated Ana Reyes to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Norton recommended Reyes to Biden. If confirmed, Reyes will be the first Hispanic woman and first openly LGBTQ person to ever serve on that court. 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 are serving on the bench.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) this week introduced a bill to clarify due process rights for federal employees serving in sensitive positions. Norton’s bill would overturn an unprecedented federal court decision, Kaplan v. Conyers and MSPB, that stripped federal employees who do not work on classified matters of the right to independent review of an agency decision removing them from jobs on grounds of ineligibility, preventing at least 200,000 federal workers who are designated as “noncritical sensitive” from appealing. Norton says the Kaplan decision undercuts the Civil Service Act, which ensures due process rights for federal workers, as required by the U.S. Constitution.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced her 100th bill this Congress and highlighted the legislative progress on the bills she has introduced.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) spoke at the National Cannabis Festival last weekend, detailing how Congress’s power over the District of Columbia’s local affairs allowed Republicans to impose a rider prohibiting D.C. from spending its local funds on recreational marijuana commercialization. Norton noted her disappointment that, despite President Biden’s strong support for D.C. statehood, his budgets for fiscal years 2022 and 2023 proposed maintaining the rider. In addition, Norton discussed her bill that would allow marijuana in public housing in jurisdictions where marijuana is legal.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Quiet Skies Caucus (QSC) 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) led QSC members in sending a letter to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg requesting the addition of five community representatives to the NextGen Advisory Committee (NAC), which advises the Federal Aviation Administration, as part of NAC’s June 2022 charter renewal.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a statement on the passing of former Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) over the weekend. Hatch coauthored the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act, which would have given D.C. permanent House voting representation and a temporary additional House seat for Utah, which narrowly missed getting a new House seat after the 2000 census.