Press Releases
May 15, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today she has introduced the District of Columbia Courts Home Rule Act, which would give the Council of the District of Columbia authority over the jurisdiction and organization of the local D.C. courts.
May 14, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today she has introduced the Banning Smoking on Amtrak Act of 2019, which would codify Amtrak’s internal policy prohibiting smoking, including electronic cigarettes, on its trains.
May 14, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD) released a letter today they led to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue expressing concern regarding the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) proposal to move the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) out of the National Capital Region.
May 14, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the passing of Alice Rivlin:
May 9, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a resolution honoring federal employees for their work in times of war and peace, recession and prosperity, and today’s global instability – and even in government shutdowns.
May 9, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the National Park Service (NPS) has committed to hosting quarterly public meetings with District of Columbia residents to hear directly from the community regarding NPS parks.
May 8, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – During National Small Business Week, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill that requires federal agencies to include in their annual budget justifications the amount they spent on advertising contracts with small disadvantaged businesses and businesses owned by women and minorities in the previous fiscal year, as well as projections of their spending for the upcoming fiscal year.
May 7, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Chair of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, along with Representatives Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA) and Anthony Brown (D-MD), today led a letter to House appropriators requesting language in the fiscal year 2020 transportation appropriations bill that would make grants to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) contingent upon Metro’s certification that it will not award any contract or subcontract for railcars to state-owned corporations.
May 6, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a "Norton in Your Neighborhood" conversation with Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 8A tomorrow at the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development Center at 7:00 p.m.
May 6, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – To highlight the priority she places on small businesses, the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton will speak and host events this week celebrating National Small Business Week.