Press Releases
January 7, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In remarks prepared for the House floor, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday blasted House Republicans for beginning 2016 with the old, discredited business of voting to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for the 62nd time and defunding Planned Parenthood as their first major legislative action of the new year.
January 7, 2016
Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) urged U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx to quickly make grant funds available to states so they can experiment with alternate ways to finance the Highway Trust Fund in a manner that will provide long-term certainty to state and local governments.
January 5, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s executive actions to reduce gun violence.
January 5, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill that would give the District of Columbia exclusive authority, like states, to grant clemency for criminal convictions under its laws.
December 30, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee and one of the “Big Four” leaders who wrote the recently signed surface transportation legislation, today released her letter to Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Acting Administrator Therese McMillan inquiring whether the new year should bring changes in the current form of FTA monitoring of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to help relieve the transit agency from dependence on short-term borrowing.
December 29, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that when Congress returns from recess she will introduce a bill to permit commercial filming and photography on the U.S. Capitol Grounds beyond Union Square, the single area where it is currently permitted when both chambers of Congress are out of session.
December 23, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission is accepting applications for an upcoming vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
December 21, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” community conversation with the Edgewood Civic Association tonight, Monday, December 21, 2015, from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., at Inspired Teaching School (200 Douglas St. NW).
December 19, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was particularly grateful that her work to get District of Columbia local judges appointed had culminated with the Senate confirming two Superior Court judges, Darlene Soltys and Robert Salerno, the day before it adjourned for the year.
December 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, worked to get expanded identity theft coverage for current, former and prospective federal employees whose personal information was compromised by Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breaches.