Press Releases

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to require federally owned or leased buildings to provide private, hygienic lactation spaces for visitors and guests to pump or breastfeed.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA) today introduced a bill to clarify and protect certain due process rights of federal employees serving in sensitive positions.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that President Obama yesterday signed a bill introduced by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) to modernize and improve the daily operations of the District of Columbia Courts, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she was deeply saddened at the passing of Concepcion Picciotto, who maintained a peace vigil outside the White House for more than 30 years.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a member of the House Aviation Subcommittee, will join advocates, who are presenting 115,000 signed petitions to Congress, on a conference call opposing privatization of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) system in the next reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today, Tuesday, January 26, 2016, at 12:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked the District of Columbia National Guard for providing critical assistance to D.C. authorities during this weekend’s snowstorm, but said that “it is absurd that the District does not have home-rule authority over its own National Guard in cases of emergency, as states do.”