Press Releases
April 10, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of Columbia Local Juror Non-Discrimination Act of 2019, which would clarify that D.C. residents may not be excluded or disqualified from jury service in the D.C. Superior Court based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
April 9, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, today introduced a bill to amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA) to include the District of Columbia in the definition of a coastal state, which would make D.C. eligible for federal coastal zone management funding.
April 8, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today urged the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to reconsider its denial of Serve DC’s grant application needed for critical services for the District of Columbia in a letter to CNCS’ Chief Executive Officer Barbara Stewart.
April 8, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will chair the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit hearing tomorrow titled “Every Life Counts: Improving the Safety of Our Nation’s Roadways.”
April 8, 2019
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) announced today a letter to the House Appropriations Committee urging Members to prohibit the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from using funds to carry out its proposal to move the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture from the National Capital Region and to reorganize ERS under the Office of the Secretary, a political office.
April 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to exempt from federal government shutdowns agencies that have jurisdiction only over District of Columbia matters but are exclusively or primarily funded by the federal government and not under the District’s control.
April 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” conversation with Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6D Monday night at 7:00 p.m.
April 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will present the Newseum’s Free Expression Power Shift Award to Tarana Burke, founder of the Me Too Movement, tonight at 6:30 p.m.
April 2, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today introduced the Fair Pay Act of 2019, which builds on her work enforcing the 1963 Equal Pay Act at the EEOC.
April 1, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today applauded all 47 Democratic Senators after Senators Tom Udall (D-NM) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) led their colleagues in introducing the For the People Act, the pro-democracy bill for the nation focusing on voting rights, ethics reforms, and fair elections.