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January 21, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the National Commission on the Insurrectionist Attack Upon the United States Capitol Act, which would create a national commission to provide a complete account of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, including preparedness and response. The commission would also present recommendations on how to protect our country from future attacks. The bill is modeled on the bipartisan legislation that created a commission to investigate the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
January 19, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced her guest for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be Hector Rodriguez, founder and chair of Veterans United for D.C. Statehood. Like other members of Congress, Norton is allowed only one guest because of the coronavirus pandemic. There are 30,000 veterans currently living in the nation’s capital, who have served their country in the U.S. military while having no voting representation in Congress.
January 19, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today applauded the letter from 60 national organizations that have endorsed statehood for the District of Columbia as a call for Congress to pass her D.C. statehood bill (H.R. 51).
January 15, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her statement for the Congressional Record on the second impeachment of President Trump. Norton strongly supported impeachment and use of the 25th Amendment to remove Trump after the Trump-led insurrection of January 6, 2021. However, in her statement she also urged passage of her concurrent resolution to censure Trump. Norton said Trump deserves and she supports much more, but censure, she believes, is the only immediate action available, and censure “can obtain bipartisan and bicameral support given the strongly expressed views of members of the House and Senate about the incitement.”
January 15, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that President-elect Biden, like Presidents Clinton and Obama, has granted her senatorial courtesy for U.S. District Court judges, the U.S. Attorney, and the two U.S. Marshals for the District of Columbia. As she did during the Clinton and Obama administrations, Norton will establish a nominating commission, comprised of lawyers and non-lawyers from all eight wards in D.C., to screen applicants and to make recommendations to her for these positions. In the meantime, Norton is asking D.C. residents who are interested in serving as U.S. Attorney, U.S. Marshal for the D.C. Superior Court, and U.S. Marshal for the U.S. District Court to submit an application for these positions to her office.
January 14, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter to the Acting Director of the National Park Service (NPS) in support of District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser’s request that NPS cancel all Public Gathering Permits and deny any application for Public Gathering Permits in the District until January 24, 2021, when all presidential inauguration activities are complete. Norton also sent a separate letter requesting that NPS clear new campsites on its property and arrest individuals for gun violations.
January 13, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) announced today that they will reintroduce their Federal Police Camera and Accountability Act, which would require uniformed federal police officers, including U.S. Capitol Police, to wear body cameras and have dashboard cameras in police vehicles. Last Congress, their bill was included in the House-passed George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020. The District of Columbia and Fairfax County both require officers to wear body cameras and have dashboard cameras in marked vehicles.
January 12, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reintroduced her bill to give D.C. control over local prosecutions to protect public safety in D.C. Although she has introduced the bill before, she says it is particularly important now to give the District control over local prosecutions in light of last week’s attacks on the Capitol. With Democrats controlling the majority in both chambers of Congress, Norton believes she can get this bill enacted.
January 11, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) today reiterated their call for Congress to fully fund the District of Columbia emergency planning and security fund (EPSF) in the future, including the $80 million the EPSF was shortchanged in the enacted fiscal year (FY) 2021 D.C. Appropriations bill. During the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week, U.S. Capitol Police requested the assistance of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), and MPD’s overwhelming response helped save the U.S. Capitol and the lives of Members of Congress, staff and employees, and end an insurrection.
January 10, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called on the House and Senate to pass a resolution censuring President Trump for an attempted coup in trying to overturn the results of the presidential election and incitement of insurrection for the attack on the U.S. Capitol last week. Norton, who has also cosponsored several impeachment resolutions since the attack on the Capitol, said censure is the only remedy that can pass both chambers immediately and, unlike impeachment, will not delay President-elect Biden’s agenda in the Senate. Norton will introduce the censure resolution on Monday. Although Congress has never adopted a bicameral resolution censuring a president, Norton says that there has also never been a president who has led an attempted coup in our country, and that both Democrats and Republicans show a thirst for an immediate response.