Priorities
Eleanor's post as the Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee’s Highways and Transit Sub-committee gives her and the District a lead seat at the table.
Statehood for the District of Columbia is Eleanor's signature issue. Since her election to Congress, she's been fighting to get her constituents the representation they deserve. In 1993, not long after being elected to the House of Representatives, Eleanor pushed the first House vote on statehood.
It’s no secret Eleanor’s been at this a while. In fact, she’s running for her seventeenth term in Congress. But this year, maybe more than any before, her seniority will allow her to fight more effectively for the District than ever.
Although the right to vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole, which Eleanor first won in the 103rd Congress, was approved by the federal courts, Norton proceeds without a vote to pass D.C. bills.
