Press Releases
February 23, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill that would help address the ongoing crisis of long-term unemployment.
February 22, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Acting Administrator Therese McMillan following up on her original request that FTA continue financial monitoring of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) while considering changes to the current paper method of monitoring to ease WMATA’s dependence on short-term borrowing for operational expenses.
February 19, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement after the National Park Service (NPS) announced that the Washington Monument’s main elevator will be closed until early next week until a damaged elevator control box is repaired.
February 18, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), in conjunction with Destination DC, the District of Columbia’s official tourism and marketing office, will host a Capitol Hill event on Friday, February 19, 2016, from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., in 345 Cannon House Office Building (Cannon Caucus Room) to showcase D.C.’s local restaurants, nightlife, museums, shops, theaters, neighborhoods, and other tourist attractions to congressional and other regional staffers.
February 18, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” community conversation with the Kingman Park Civic Association tonight, Thursday, February 18, 2016, from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., at St. Benedict the Moor Church (320 21st St. NE).
February 17, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will give remarks at the University of the District of Columbia’s (UDC) 40th Anniversary Founders’ Day Celebration tomorrow, February 18, 2016, at 10:00 a.m., on UDC’s Van Ness Campus at the Theater of the Arts Auditorium (Connecticut Ave. at Windom Circle, NW).
February 17, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be the featured guest at a Black Heritage Celebration hosted by George Washington University tonight, February 17, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., in Room B07 at the George Washington School of Media & Public Affairs (805 21st St. NW).
February 16, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will commemorate Black History Month by hosting a community discussion entitled, “Young Black Empowerment: A Roundtable on Millennial Success Stories” on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., at the Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School Library (2427 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE).
February 13, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
February 12, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Despite divisions on a controversial Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the normally bipartisan House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and one of the “Big Four” transportation leaders who wrote the recently-enacted surface transportation bill, got her major priorities for the District of Columbia and the nation into the bill, which passed the committee last night.