Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Two top priorities of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Subcommittee, unanimously passed the House today as part of the Public Buildings Reform and Savings Act of 2016.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will testify against a bill to repeal a referendum ratified overwhelmingly by District of Columbia voters in 2013 that granted the District budget autonomy at a House Rules Committee hearing scheduled for Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 3:00 p.m., in H-313 (U.S. Capitol).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) for touting his bill to wipe out all of the District of Columbia’s gun safety laws at the same time an armed gunman had to be shot by the U.S. Secret Service outside of the White House.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that H.R. 5233, a bill to repeal a referendum ratified overwhelmingly by District of Columbia voters in 2013 that granted the District budget autonomy, is scheduled to go before the House Rules Committee on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 3:00 p.m., in H-312 (U.S. Capitol).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that H.R. 5233, a bill to repeal a referendum ratified overwhelmingly by District of Columbia voters in 2013 that granted the District budget autonomy, is scheduled to go to the House floor next week.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today at an House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) markup vigorously defended the Local Budget Autonomy Act of 2012 (BAA), a referendum ratified overwhelmingly by District of Columbia voters in 2013 to grant the District budget autonomy.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, and D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine held a press conference today at the John A. Wilson Building expressing their determination to support the District as it proceeds with its local budget without submitting it to the congressional appropriations process despite attempts almost simultaneously by House Republicans today to repeal the Local Budget Autonomy Act of 2012 (BAA), a referendum ratified overwhelmingly by D.C. voters in 2013 and upheld by a D.C. Superior Court judge.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will go to the John A. Wilson building as the District of Columbia Council holds its first vote on the District’s fiscal year 2017 budget to stand with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, and D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine at a press conference tomorrow, May 17, 2016, at 12:30 p.m., at the John A. Wilson Building’s main entrance lobby (1350 Pennsylvania Ave NW, First Floor).