U.S. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) in 2009. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
After another D.C. resident stepped forward to say the validity of his D.C. license was questioned by a TSA agent, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton said she will meet with officials to look for a “permanent solution.”
In a release, Norton’s office cites both TV news correspondent Justin Gray’s experience in Orlando — where the agent didn’t seem to know what D.C. was — and U.S. News and World Report’s Travis Mitchell encounter in New Hampshire — where his D.C. license was not accepted as valid at a liquor store.
“We may not be a State and we may not have a vote in Congress, but we pay taxes to the United States,” Norton said in a statement. “At the very least, we should be recognized as part of the United States by our own Transportation Security Agency and by each and every State and locality. I appreciate that Governor Maggie Hassan tweeted she is looking into the New Hampshire liquor ID statute. I am also grateful for the immediate action taken by TSA Administrator John Pistole when I contacted him when the first complaints arose earlier this year. I am looking forward to a sit-down meeting with TSA officials to find a permanent solution to this problem. ”