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U.S. Representative, District of Columbia · Democrat

Eleanor Holmes Norton

129 statements indexed, set against 85 recorded votes.

85 recorded votes

  • Voted for910.6%
  • Voted against6981.2%
  • Did not vote78.2%
91.8%
of the votes they could cast
129
statements indexed
5,182
words on the floor

Turned up for 91.8% of the votes they could have cast, below the middle of the House, which is 97.5%.

In plain English

Norton voted 92 times out of every 100 they could. That is less than the middle of the House, which is 98.

They vote the same way as Brad Sherman more than anyone else. The two agreed 99 times out of 100.

Across the aisle they line up most with Brian K. Fitzpatrick. They agreed 76 times out of 100.

The Record prints their remarks under 8 headings more than once. The list below names them.

First took office
January 3, 1991
Terms served
18 terms in the House
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
Born
June 13, 1937

Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.

What They Spoke On

The District of Columbia is the subject of nearly everything Norton has on the record here. Judicial nominations, policing, cash bail, criminal reform and the age at which a minor may be tried as an adult all appear under District headings, most of them measures Congress took up over the District's own laws.

The business the Congressional Record printed their remarks under, counted, with the chamber's own procedure left out. It is what was before the chamber, which is not always what the member was addressing.

What Was Said, and What Was Done

129 statements quoted from the Congressional Record and set against Eleanor Holmes Norton’s votes. The most recent are below, one from each item of business, each linking to what it is set against.

All 129 statements, with a search →

Counted from the record

What Their Votes Add Up To

Fewer than four such votes in any subject.

Voting With Their Party

On the 471 votes this Congress where a majority of Democrats took one side and a majority of Republicans took the other, Eleanor Holmes Norton voted on 57 and was with the Democrat majority on 55 of them.

57 party line votes cast

  • With their party5596.5%
  • Against their party23.5%

A delegate may vote in committee and in the Committee of the Whole but not on final passage, so these votes are a different set from a voting member's.

Votes Against Their Own Party

Who They Vote With

In Their Own Party

Of the votes both took part in.

Voting Across the Aisle

The record itself

Where the Words Are

The Congressional Record marks Eleanor Holmes Norton as speaking in 124 items of business across 101 sitting days of this Congress.

Many of those appearances are procedural: yielding time, a request to revise and extend, a call for the yeas and nays. The count comes from the Record's own speaker tagging, which is not complete, so a member may have spoken more often than it shows.

The eight most recent, each linking to that day's Record at govinfo.

Every Recorded Vote

All 85 recorded votes of the 119th Congress in which the Clerk of the House lists Eleanor Holmes Norton. The most recent 4 below, each linking to the official record of that vote.

All 85 recorded votes, newest first →

Elsewhere in the Record

How these records are gathered, and what they leave out, is set out on the Promise Tracker.