Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing examining a proposal to transfer authority over the nation’s Air Traffic Control System (ATC) to a private corporation expressed her concern about its feasibility and its responsiveness to the public on issues such as airplane noise, which has become a major problem in the District of Columbia and throughout the country.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) for working with her to get a home-rule change to the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act, which was passed today by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that she was gratified that President Obama’s fiscal year 2017 budget, his final budget, contains the major funding and policy priorities for the District of Columbia that she requested, including pro-home-rule provisions to allow D.C.’s budget and laws to take effect immediately upon passage by the city.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—To ensure that thousands of District of Columbia residents get their federal and D.C. taxes prepared free of charge, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser today held a press conference at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a press conference with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and representatives from Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites across D.C. to raise awareness that tax season has begun and to provide low- and moderate-income D.C. residents (income less than $54,000) information on where they can receive free income tax return preparation services at neighborhood VITA site locations on Monday, February 8, 2016, at 10:00 a.m., at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (801 G St. NW), Great Hall (First Floor).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that President Obama today nominated Patrick Burke to serve as U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia. Burke, whom Norton recommended to the President, is currently an Assistant Chief in the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) strongly condemned Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) for meddling in her district instead of taking care of his own Georgia constituents after Price introduced a bill today that would, among other things, prohibit the federal and District of Columbia governments from deducting union dues from employee paychecks.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Representative Mark Meadows (R-NC) for introducing a bill that would put the federal government in the position of using its power to dictate to a local jurisdiction how to spend its local education funds. The bill would force the District of Columbia to direct its local funds away from the D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) and public charter schools toward vouchers for any student who chooses to attend private schools.