Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to President Obama asking that he “make a historic contribution to home rule by delegating to the [District of Columbia] mayor authority to grant clemency for criminal offenses against D.C.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) congratulated District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. City Council on a historic home-rule victory after the D.C. Superior Court today upheld the budget autonomy referendum approved by D.C. voters in 2013.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she was gratified that President Obama has nominated her recommendations to fill the two vacancies for commissioners on the U.S. Parole Commission (USPC): Almo Carter, a Staff Attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS); and Larry Glenn, Chief U.S. Probation Officer for the District of the Virgin Islands.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today at the third Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) hearing examining the Flint lead-in-water crisis got Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to admit that the Flint Water Task Force, which he created last October, has already settled the question of who was responsible for the Flint water crisis: the state of Michigan, through its Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who, as with past U.S. Supreme Court nominees, will be looking into the background of Merrick Garland, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus, said today that she, of course, remembers that Judge Garland wrote the controversial decision for the 2000 case Alexander v. Daley, in which D.C. residents sought voting rights in the House and Senate.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who was among four House leaders who recently wrote the new surface transportation bill, released the following statement today after Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) General Manager Paul Wiedefeld announced that the transit system is scheduled to reopen at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) called on House Republicans to apply the principle of local control emphasized in their fiscal year 2017 budget, released today, to the local affairs of the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today at the second Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) hearing examining the Flint lead-in-water crisis said that local, state, and federal officials failed to act on early warning signs, not unlike what happened with the District of Columbia’s lead-in-water crisis during the early 2000s.