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Your representative in the U.S. House of Representatives for the District of Columbia (DC-AL) is **Eleanor Holmes Norton**. 

Because Washington, D.C. is a federal district and not a state, she serves as a **non-voting Delegate** rather than a traditional Representative. 

Here is what that means for her role:
* **What she can do:** She can draft and introduce legislation, serve on and vote in congressional committees, and speak on the House floor. 
* **What she cannot do:** She cannot vote on the final passage of bills on the House floor. 

A Democrat, Delegate Norton has represented the District of Columbia in Congress since 1991. 

*(Note: D.C. also elects a "Shadow Representative," currently Oye Owolewa, whose unpaid role is to lobby Congress for D.C. statehood, but he is not an official member of the U.S. Congress.)*