Press Releases
January 12, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who authored the nation’s sexual harassment guidance as the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will discuss the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements on the PBS series “To The Contrary,” which can be seen today, Friday, January 12, 2018, at 5:30 p.m. (WETA), Saturday, January 13, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. (WHUT), and Sunday, January 14, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. (WETA).
January 11, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released Norton’s letter to Senate Sergeant at Arms Frank J. Larkin requesting he reconsider his apparent opposition to the construction of a protected bike lane between Union Station and the U.S. Capitol Grounds on Louisiana Avenue.
January 10, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer remarks at the 34th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast, hosted by the United Planning Organization (UPO), tomorrow, Thursday, January 11, 2018, from 8:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m., at the National Press Club (529 14th Street, NW, 13th Floor).
January 10, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today issued the following statement after Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) announced he would not seek reelection. From 2011-2015, Issa served as chair of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), which has jurisdiction over the District of Columbia.
January 9, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Judicial Nominations Working Group, will lead a CBC forum on the virtually unexamined issue of lack of diversity of President Trump’s nominees for the federal bench today, Tuesday, January 9, 2018, at 3:30 p.m., in 2253 Rayburn House Office Building.
January 8, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that this week she will introduce a bill to protect from deportation Salvadorans who currently have Temporary Protected Status (TPS) after the Trump administration today terminated TPS for El Salvador.
January 3, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) for his “friendship and for his long, honorable and productive service to the nation” in the United States Senate after he announced he would retire at the end of the year.
January 3, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Judicial Nominations Working Group, will lead a CBC forum on the lack of diversity and, in some cases, lack of qualifications, of President Trump’s nominees for the federal bench on Tuesday, January 9, 2018, at 3:30 p.m., in 2253 Rayburn House Office Building.
December 28, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that in one of the great ironies of the onerous District of Columbia budget process, D.C. residents can prepay their 2018 property taxes by December 31, 2017, to avoid the $10,000 state and local tax deduction cap that takes effect next year.
December 27, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) pledged to defeat a bill introduced last week by Representative Morgan Griffith (R-VA), a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, that would roll back a critical component of the District of Columbia Revitalization Act and blow a massive hole in the District’s budget.