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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) highlighted two reports released by the House Appropriations Committee that include victories for the District of Columbia. The report accompanying the fiscal year 2022 D.C. Appropriations bill requires a plan to phase out the D.C. voucher program in fiscal year 2023. Norton has supported phasing out the program because the program was created by Congress without D.C.’s consent and the program has failed to improve academic achievement, as measured by reading and math test scores. The report accompanying the fiscal year 2022 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill directs the Architect of the Capitol to complete the Louisiana Avenue bike lane and the Capitol Police to allow sledding on Capitol grounds.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reintroduced the District of Columbia Clemency Home Rule Act, which would give D.C. exclusive authority, like the states and territories have, to grant clemency to offenders convicted under its local laws. Currently, this authority is exercised in D.C. by the President.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the Committee on Oversight and Reform (COR) tomorrow will mark up two of her bills, the D.C. Chief Financial Officer Salary Home Rule Act, which would allow D.C. to raise the pay of its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and the D.C. Local Juror Non-Discrimination Act, which would bar disqualification from jury service in the D.C. Superior Court based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The markup begins at 9 a.m. and may be viewed on COR’s website.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, said that the infrastructure framework announced by President Biden yesterday is an indication of bipartisan progress on the President’s infrastructure agenda but falls far short in total funding and on climate change. However, she said that even this framework is unlikely to pass unless it meets Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ultimatum that there will be no House vote on the physical infrastructure bill until the Senate also passes the President’s human infrastructure bill, including childcare and nutrition.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) praised the fiscal year 2022 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, which passed out of the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee yesterday, for providing $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. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) today announced that their bill to ban smoking, including electronic cigarettes, on Amtrak was recently passed by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee as part of the INVEST in America Act and by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation as part of the Surface Transportation Investment Act of 2021.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced the major victories she secured in the House’s fiscal year 2022 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, which was released today. The bill provides $40 million for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG), which 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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the House’s fiscal year 2022 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, released today, provides $254 million for 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.