Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host the Stanley Cup in her congressional office on Wednesday, October 17, 2018, from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., in 2136 Rayburn House Office Building (First Floor). Fans can arrive at Norton’s office beginning at 9:30 a.m. and will be admitted in groups of four.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) can be seen on this week’s airing of the PBS series “To The Contrary” today, Friday, October 12, 2018, at 5:30 p.m. (WETA); Saturday, October 13, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. (WHUT); and Sunday, October 14, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. (WETA).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the Smithsonian Institution’s memorial service for Lori Yarrish, Director of the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, tomorrow, Friday, October 12, 2018, at 9:00 a.m., at the Freer Gallery’s Meyer Auditorium (1050 Independence Ave. SW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released Norton’s letter to Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Acting Director Hugh Hurwitz strongly opposing a new BOP requirement that the facility awarded a contract for a Residential Reentry Management Center in the District of Columbia metropolitan area must accept all high-risk inmates, including sexual predators whose victims were children.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will join District of Columbia students and parents for Walk to School Day today, Wednesday, October 10, 2018, at 7:30 a.m., in Lincoln Park (13th St. and East Capitol St. SE).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a community meeting on the construction of a protected bike lane between Union Station and the U.S. Capitol Grounds on Louisiana Avenue on Wednesday, October 24, 2018, from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., in 2253 Rayburn House Office Building (Second Floor).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has jurisdiction over federal employees, today released the following statement after a tentative congressional agreement was reached for a 1.9 percent pay raise for civilian federal employees.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she will introduce a bill to remove the authority of a federal agency, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), to review or approve the development of District of Columbia government-owned land.