Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) called out Republicans for “bright-light hypocrisy” on the District of Columbia after the House Budget Committee today released its fiscal year 2018 budget resolution, which stresses the importance of reducing the power of the federal government and empowering state and local governments.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that her annual Job Fair—free and open only to District of Columbia residents—will be held Wednesday, August 2, 2017, from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at the Washington Convention Center (801 Mount Vernon PL NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes Fast Eddie & The Slowpokes and Epiphany for today’s Lunchtime Music on the Mall performances today, Tuesday, July 18, 2017, from noon – 2:00 p.m., on the National Mall across from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on Jefferson Drive SW between 4th Street and 7th Street SW.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that two of her bills are scheduled to be marked up by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday, July 19, 2017, at 10:00 a.m. in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today responded to a press report that Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) had a discussion last Thursday with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) about Massie’s bill (H.R. 2909) to require the District of Columbia to recognize out-of-state permits to carry concealed guns, regardless of the state standards for issuing such permits.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the announcement by Mayor Muriel Bowser that the District of Columbia implemented today its medical aid-in-dying law, the Death with Dignity Act (DWDA).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that at last night’s committee markup of the fiscal year 2018 District of Columbia appropriations bill, D.C. faced two new riders, both offered by Representative Andy Harris (R-MD).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, at a Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management hearing on oversight of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) pressed GSA Acting Administrator Tim Horne on whether the U.S. government had received its share of profits from the Trump International Hotel, which leases the former Old Post Office building from GSA.