Eleanor Holmes Norton

I thank my good friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of S. 848, the Consider Teachers Act of 2021. I introduced the companion bill with Congresswoman Victoria Spartz. I would like to thank Senators Mike Braun and…

The witnesses that you have invited today have just the kind of extensive background working at the grassroots level that we need.

I come to report significant progress on D.C. statehood and to thank my colleagues for passing my bill to make the District the 51st State. I especially thank Senator Gary Peters for holding a Senate hearing on the bill in June, only the…

As chair of the subcommittee that helped write today's INVEST in America Act, I want to emphasize that this bill breaks with previous Transportation and Infrastructure bills generally passed every 4 or 5 years. Until today, we have simply…

I have been struck by how the pandemic has led to the rise of digital government.

This is an important hearing for a number of reasons.

The fact that more than half a million Americans live in the District of Columbia and are denied a single voting representative in Congress is clear an historic wrong and justice demands that it be addressed.

This hearing is of historic significance, because it is only the second Senate hearing on our D.C. statehood bill in the nation's history.

Again, Chairman Peters and Senator Carper, thank you for your leadership on this bill.

Congress does have a choice. It can continue to exclude D.C. residents from the democratic process, forcing them to watch from the sidelines as Congress votes on Federal and D.C. laws and to treat them, in the words of Frederick Douglass…

Senator Carper, I particularly thank you for sponsoring our D.C. statehood bill and for being a champion for D.C. in the Senate, where we have no representation.

D.C. pays more Federal taxes per capital--and I will repeat that one. The residents I represent pay more taxes per capita than any State, and pay more Federal taxes, right now, than 21 States.

Today's bill making Juneteenth, when the last slaves got word that slavery had ended, a federal holiday has unique meaning for the District of Columbia because the slaves here were the first, not the last, to be freed. The reason, of…

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) that the House suspend…

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) that the House suspend…

I have no further speakers, and I reserve the balance of my time. Miss GONZALEZ-COLON. Madam Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Graves), my friend and the ranking member of the Aviation…

I reserve the balance of my time. Miss GONZALEZ-COLON. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Guest).

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) that the House suspend…

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. Blunt Rochester). The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton)…

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) that the House suspend…

The D.C. statehood bill will receive a hearing in the Senate, and I expect the date to be announced today. I appreciate that our D.C. statehood bill has already passed the House, and I thank the House. Our hearings and House passage have…

I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time. Miss GONZALEZ-COLON. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Speaker, I just want to say, in closing, that H.R. 2016 is a good-government, bipartisan piece…

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) that the House suspend the…

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) that the House suspend…

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia (Ms. Norton) that the House suspend…