Press Releases
November 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) delivered this week’s Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) “Message to America.” Norton focused on the CBC’s work that led to the fight against mandatory minimums—which is now bearing fruit with the early release this month of about 6,000 federal prisoners, who had their drug sentences reduced.
November 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she was reassured about security in the District of Columbia after a personal briefing with the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Washington Field Office, Paul Abbate, and U.S. Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine in her Capitol Hill office.
November 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today opposed H.R. 1737, the Reforming CFPB Indirect Auto Financing Guidance Act, which would greatly diminish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) ability to address racially discriminatory lending practices in the auto industry. In 2013, the CFPB issued guidance aimed at curbing additional charges and fees that dealers add to loan costs known as “markups.”
November 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee and one of the “Big Four” transportation leaders that got the House to pass a six-year surface transportation bill, today spoke out about urgent priorities for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee at the first Conference Committee meeting to reconcile the Senate and House transportation reauthorization bills. Norton praised Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA), Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Highways and Transit Subcommittee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) for working so closely together to achieve one of the few bipartisan bills to come from the 114th Congress.
November 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that she was delighted to see the $12 million groundbreaking today of D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services’ Engine 22, the first building to rise on the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), federal land that Norton got transferred to the District of Columbia last year.
November 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) last night at a classified national security briefing for Members of the House with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson, Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey, and officials from Departments of Defense and State asked several questions regarding security in the District of Columbia in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris.
November 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) has agreed to work with Norton to improve the Spirit of Justice Park, located within the Capitol Hill community and the publicly accessible Capitol complex between C and D streets SE.
November 17, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee, along with some members of the House’s Virginia delegation, today met with incoming Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) General Manager Paul Wiedefeld.
November 17, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that she will be personally briefed tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Washington Field Office Assistant Director Paul Abbate on security in the District of Columbia following the terrorist attacks in Paris this past weekend and a new threat made by ISIL specifically against the nation’s capital.
November 17, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a member of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, will speak at a press conference to announce the creation of a Transgender Equality Task Force, of which she is a founding member, today, Tuesday, November 16, 2015, at 10:30 a.m., at the House Triangle (SE corner of U.S. Capitol).