Press Releases

There is a new Kavanaugh investigation controversy brewing in real time under our congressional noses.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a resolution to designate September as “Peace Month” and to call on Congress to take action to promote peace, at home and abroad, an idea that came from the Helpful Potato Bugs, a class of second grade students at Horace Mann Elementary School in the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As the House of Representatives gavels out until the November elections, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will hold time on the House floor to talk about the record-breaking support she has garnered for District of Columbia statehood this Congress, while simultaneously fighting back against a record number of anti-democratic attacks by House Republicans on D.C.’s local laws and policies.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today spoke at a press conference hosted by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) supporting Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and the other women who have come forward to tell their stories regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Inspector General Phyllis K. Fong requesting that she examine the legality, the rationale, and the process used to develop the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) proposal to relocate the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, currently located in the nation’s capital, by the end of 2019, and to reorganize ERS under the Office of the Secretary, a political office. Nearly 700 federal employees could be affected by the relocation.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—With aircraft noise rising here in the District of Columbia and around the country, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus and a senior Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Aviation Subcommittee, today announced she has gotten several of her provisions to help address airplane noise and other priorities included in the final House-Senate negotiated Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a Yale Law School alumna, today supported a letter signed by 47 members of the Yale Law School faculty calling on the Senate to conduct a fair and deliberate confirmation process that includes an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will speak at two events celebrating and supporting the District of Columbia’s LBGTQ community.