U.S. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) in 2009. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

After a D.C. resident’s license was questioned by a Transportation Security Administration agent, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has asked Administrator John Pistole to ensure that his employees know that the city is part of America.

“I am sure that the TSO involved was not typical of the hardworking employees of the TSA,” Norton wrote in the letter to Pistole. “However, I have since learned that American citizens of the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have encountered similar indignities.” Norton said the incident involving Ashley Brandt is “so bizarre and ludicrous” that it “reflects poorly on the management of TSA.”

Brandt told the Post a TSA agent in Phoenix said “I don’t know if we can accept these” of her D.C. license. A supervisor later informed her “Yeah, we accept those.”

“I request that you take steps to ensure that all TSA employees are informed now and in their training that identification documents issued by the District of Columbia and the territories must be treated the same as state-issued identification, and to remind them that D.C. residents and the residents of the territories are American citizens and deserve to be treated as such,” Norton asks in the letter.