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WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Today, at approximately 4:00 p.m., Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will manage bills on the House floor.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, and D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson unveiled D.C.’s second statue in the U.S. Capitol. The statue is of Pierre L’Enfant, which D.C. commissioned more than a decade ago with the hope that it would one day be displayed in the Capitol. Because each state is entitled to two statues in the Capitol, Norton said today is a symbolic step toward statehood for the almost 700,000 residents of the nation’s capital.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the reinstallation of temporary fencing around the U.S. Capitol today.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, President Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to be the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. President Obama nominated Jackson to the U.S. District Court for D.C. on the recommendation of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). The Senate confirmed Jackson for the district court by voice vote.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that the District of Columbia will score a historic victory for equality with the states on Monday, February 28, when D.C.’s second statue in the U.S. Capitol will be unveiled at a ceremony hosted by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Norton, Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendelson will speak at the unveiling, which will begin at 10 a.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) was thoroughly briefed yesterday by United States Capitol Police (USCP) Chief J. Thomas Manger about security preparations for the trucker convoy and next week’s State of the Union address, including the possible reinstallation of temporary fencing around the Capitol. Norton requested the briefing.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill this week to prohibit the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from charging inmates copayments for health care visits. District of Columbia Code felons are housed by the BOP.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the National Park Service (NPS) will remove the name of Melvin Hazen from the area of Rock Creek Park in the District of Columbia named for Hazen. Norton requested that NPS remove the name of the racist Hazen and informed NPS she would introduce legislation to do so if NPS did not remove the name itself. The area will now be known by its reservation number, 630, like many other areas of NPS land in D.C.