Press Releases
June 20, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her amendment to the fiscal year 2020 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations bill to prohibit the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from using its fiscal year 2020 funds to charge subsistence fees for offenders in halfway houses and on home confinement passed the House of Representatives last night. D.C. Code felons are housed by the BOP.
June 20, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill yesterday to remove the authority of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), a federal agency, to review development of District of Columbia-owned parks and buildings, as well as development of certain private property in D.C.
June 20, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL), co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys, will host a hearing today on fatherhood in the U.S. Capitol Building.
June 19, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement in recognition of Juneteenth today, commemorating the fuller emancipation of African American slaves two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
June 19, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her amendment to the fiscal year 2020 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill to increase funding for the Anacostia Watershed Restoration Program by $5 million passed the House of Representatives today.
June 19, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a letter today she sent to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Robert Wilkie, requesting that the VA stop the closure of the Southeast Washington Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC), which is set for September 30, 2019, after the location’s lease expires.
June 19, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) today introduced a bill to require uniformed federal police officers to wear body cameras and have dashboard cameras in police vehicles.
June 18, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the second annual “By The People” Arts Festival today, Tuesday, June 18th, at the Halcyon House in Georgetown at 11:00 a.m.
June 18, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), a member of the Appropriations Committee, today released a joint letter urging supplemental FY 2019 appropriations to the District of Columbia’s Emergency Planning and Security Fund (ESPF), warning that if the District “does not receive supplemental appropriations for the EPSF, it would be put in the untenable position of not providing support for certain federal events or having to divert its local funds from local public safety activities to support activities that are to be covered by the EPSF.”
June 17, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, has filed an amendment to the fiscal year 2020 transportation appropriations bill that would prohibit the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) from purchasing Chinese-made railcars.