Press Releases
January 22, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a town hall with federal employees, federal contract workers and local District of Columbia businesses to highlight the deeply harmful impacts of the Trump shutdown on D.C. residents and the District’s economy on Thursday, January 24, 2019, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., at One Judiciary Square (441 4th St. NW).
January 18, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) next week will host a town hall with federal employees, federal contract workers, and local District of Columbia businesses to highlight the deeply harmful impacts of the Trump shutdown on D.C. residents and the District’s economy.
January 18, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today condemned a bill introduced by Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) to permanently prohibit the District of Columbia from spending its local funds that have been approved by Congress on abortion services for low-income women.
January 17, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked Senate Democrats for today defeating a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to a bill to permanently prohibit the District of Columbia from spending its local funds on abortion services for low-income women.
January 17, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.— The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton has broken the record for total House cosponsors for her bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state.
January 16, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has been appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to preside as chair of the Committee of the Whole on the House floor today at approximately 1:30 p.m.
January 15, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today condemned a bill introduced by Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) to permanently prohibit the District of Columbia from spending its local funds that have been approved by Congress on abortion services for low-income women.
January 11, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today submitted remarks into the congressional record in support of a bill to guarantee back pay to federal employees who have been furloughed or forced to work without pay during government shutdowns.
January 11, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) pledged to once again defeat a bill introduced today by Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA) that would roll back a critical component of the District of Columbia Revitalization Act and force the District to spend millions of dollars in new budgetary costs.
January 10, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) is scheduled to speak at a rally today outside of the AFL-CIO headquarters (815 16th St. NW) hosted by more than 20 labor unions representing federal employees and federal contract workers to call on Republicans and President Trump to end the partial government shutdown.