Eleanor Holmes NortonVote leaningMore liberal
-0.493Based on 72 roll-call observations in the 119th Congress. This is Voteview DW-NOMINATE, an estimate from roll-call behavior—not a Baseline rating. Read the method ↗ or see our evidence rules.
Delegate · District of Columbia · Democrat
Eleanor Holmes Norton
U.S. House · DC At large
Eleanor Holmes Norton is the Democratic Delegate from the District of Columbia in the U.S. House, where she has served since January 3, 1991. A lawyer, she chaired the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1977 to 1981 and was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
Background
Biography
Eleanor Holmes Norton was born in Washington, D.C., on June 13, 1937. She graduated from Dunbar High School in Washington, earned a B.A. from Antioch College in 1960, an M.A. from Yale University in 1963 and an LL.B. from Yale University Law School in 1964. A lawyer, she clerked for Federal District Court Judge A. Leon Higginbotham from 1964 to 1965 and was assistant legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1965 to 1970. She was an adjunct assistant professor at New York University Law School from 1970 to 1971.
She was on the staff of New York Mayor John Lindsay from 1971 to 1974 and chaired the New York City commission on human rights from 1970 to 1977. She chaired the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1977 to 1981, was a senior fellow at the Urban Institute from 1981 to 1982 and a professor at Georgetown University Law Center from 1982 to 1990. She was elected as a Democrat to the 102nd Congress and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses, and has served as Delegate since January 3, 1991. She sits on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
119th Congress
The voting record at a glance
Every House roll-call position in the current Congress that Voteview associates with this member. Data current through Oct 1, 2026.
- Recorded votes
- 85
- Participation
- 91.8%
- Yea / nay
- 9 / 69
- Latest vote
- Jul 22, 2026
Recorded positions
Latest roll-call votes
Position, question, result, tally, and source are shown together so readers can inspect the record without leaving the page.
| Date | Position | Roll call | Issue | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nay | HR8800On Agreeing to the AmendmentOn Agreeing to the AmendmentOfficial roll call ↗ | Other floor business | Failed175–254 | |
| Nay | HR8800On Agreeing to the AmendmentOn Agreeing to the AmendmentOfficial roll call ↗ | Other floor business | Agreed to232–199 | |
| Nay | HR8800On Agreeing to the AmendmentOn Agreeing to the AmendmentOfficial roll call ↗ | Other floor business | Failed207–224 | |
| Nay | HR8800On Agreeing to the AmendmentOn Agreeing to the AmendmentOfficial roll call ↗ | Other floor business | Agreed to221–210 | |
| Nay | HR8800On Agreeing to the AmendmentOn Agreeing to the AmendmentOfficial roll call ↗ | Other floor business | Failed214–216 | |
| Nay | HR8800On Agreeing to the AmendmentOn Agreeing to the AmendmentOfficial roll call ↗ | Other floor business | Agreed to221–203 | |
| Nay | HR8800On Agreeing to the AmendmentOn Agreeing to the AmendmentOfficial roll call ↗ | Other floor business | Agreed to219–208 | |
| Nay | HR8800On Agreeing to the AmendmentOn Agreeing to the AmendmentOfficial roll call ↗ | Other floor business | Failed212–217 | |
| Nay | HR8800On Agreeing to the AmendmentOn Agreeing to the AmendmentOfficial roll call ↗ | Other floor business | Agreed to215–214 | |
| Nay | HR8800On Agreeing to the AmendmentOn Agreeing to the AmendmentOfficial roll call ↗ | Other floor business | Failed76–350 | |
| Nay | HR8800On Agreeing to the AmendmentOn Agreeing to the AmendmentOfficial roll call ↗ | Other floor business | Failed61–365 | |
| Nay | HR8800On Agreeing to the AmendmentOn Agreeing to the AmendmentOfficial roll call ↗ | Other floor business | Failed201–224 |
Patterns in the record
Vote leaning and issue mix
These are descriptive measures of roll-call behavior, not judgments about truthfulness, effectiveness, or constituent approval.
Where roll calls fall
Policy areas come from Voteview’s Congressional Research Service fields, with plain-language fallback categories when no CRS label is supplied.
Source: Voteview members’ votes ↗. Lewis, Poole, Rosenthal, Boche, Rudkin, and Sonnet (2026), Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database.
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