Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C.—This weekend, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at two Veterans Day events to honor District of Columbia veterans. Norton also introduced a resolution recognizing D.C.’s 30,000 veterans and their families, condemning the denial of voting rights in Congress and full home rule for D.C. veterans and their families, and calling for statehood for the District to make D.C. veterans and other residents whole.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold a community meeting to discuss reports of vibration issues resulting from CSX trains traveling through the Virginia Avenue Tunnel on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, at 7:00 p.m., at the Capitol Quarter Community Center (1000 5th St. SE).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, in response to her request, has begun an assessment of conditions at the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) Hazelton facility in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to Correctional Management & Communications Group requesting information after its subsidiary CORE DC was awarded a five-year contract from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to operate a Residential Reentry Center (RRC), or halfway house, in the District of Columbia, replacing the existing contract with Hope Village.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today mourned the passing of her friend Patricia Smoot, a former commissioner and chair of the U.S. Parole Commission. Norton recommended that President Obama nominate Smoot to serve as commissioner and then chair of the Commission, which has jurisdiction over District of Columbia-code felons.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will receive a Visionary Leader Award from Physicians for Social Responsibility tonight, Thursday, November 8, 2018, at 7:00 p.m., at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a special event, entitled “The Heroic Legacy: African Americans and Latinos of WWI,” hosted by the World War I Centennial Commission today, Thursday, November 8, 2018, at 4:00 p.m., at Pershing Park (1455 Pennsylvania Ave. NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that, with Democratic control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years, she will engage in a number of strategies to make District of Columbia residents equal to other Americans.