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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) reintroduced a bill yesterday to create a national commission on combating sexual harassment in all the nation’s major industries and workplaces after watching New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s shameful fall and resignation. The commission would report to Congress on recommended changes in law or regulations and is modeled on legislation Congress enacted to combat other national problems. Specifically, the commission would recommend best practices for preventing, training on, investigating, responding to, and punishing sexual harassment in the private and public sectors. Norton, the first woman to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), issued the first federal guidelines holding sexual harassment to be a violation of equal employment laws, later upheld by the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that the amendment to the budget resolution under consideration in the Senate underscores the need for statehood for the District of Columbia and urged senators to vote against the anti-D.C. amendment. One introduced by Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS), would allow for funds to be spent to retrocede the residential areas of D.C. back to Maryland in lieu of statehood.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) reintroduced the District of Columbia Zoning Commission Home Rule Act today, which would remove the Architect of the Capitol and the Director of the National Park Service from the D.C. Zoning Commission. Currently, the Commission consists of these two federal officials and three mayoral appointees, even though the Commission has no authority over federal property. Despite the D.C. Home Rule Act, which gave D.C. jurisdiction over local matters, 40 percent of the members of the Commission are federal officials, who are unaccountable to the more than 700,000 residents who live in the District.

WASHINGTON D.C. — This Thursday, August 12, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a press conference after delivering a petition to the White House calling on President Biden to leverage the power of his office to publicly urge the Senate to end the filibuster and ensure lawmakers can pass her D.C. statehood bill, along with other crucial legislation protecting voting rights. Speakers and event details are listed below.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she has reintroduced a bill that would correct a retirement issue for several categories of workers who used to be under the District of Columbia retirement system.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House today passed two of her amendments to a fiscal year 2022 appropriations bill. The House subsequently passed the bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House today passed the fiscal year 2022 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, which provides $254 million to the General Services Administration for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) consolidation project at the St. Elizabeths West Campus in Ward 8 in the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House today passed the fiscal year 2022 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, which has many victories for D.C. secured by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC). The bill provides $40 million for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG), a program a Norton bill created, and, importantly, increases the DCTAG annual and lifetime awards; prohibits the president from federalizing the D.C. police department; and, in other important steps, removes the two enacted fiscal year 2021 riders, which prohibit D.C. from spending its local funds on abortion services for low-income women and on recreational marijuana commercialization, which more than a dozen states have done.