Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C.—At an Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing today with the new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator, Peter Neffenger, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) raised the issue of TSA agents being unable to recognize the new District of Columbia license, which was changed from “Washington, D.C.” to “District of Columbia,” in May 2014.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced new statistics showing District of Columbia residents employed and D.C. small businesses contracted at federal construction projects in the city that were achieved through Norton’s legislative work.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” community conversation hosted by the Brightwood Park Civic Association tonight, Monday, November 2, 2015 from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. at the Emery Recreation Center (5701 Georgia Ave. NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement following the election of Congressman Paul D. Ryan (R-WI) as Speaker of the House.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was pleased by the quick actions and response by Smithsonian Institution Secretary David Skorton, detailed in a letter written to Norton, in which he described action he has taken to strengthen practices and policies to ensure that employees of the Smithsonian who are nursing mothers “have access to appropriate private places to pump breast milk for their babies” and tasking “all our directors and supervisors to immediately identify…appropriate space for nursing mothers.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer remarks at the grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony for Dynamic Concepts Inc.’s (DCI) new Washington Training Complex today, Wednesday, October 28, 2015, at 10:30 a.m., at 1419 Kenilworth Avenue NE.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—After hearing concerns from her constituents about the scheduled closing of Buzzard Point Marina at the end of the year, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to the National Park Service (NPS) requesting “a community meeting in early November so that members of the public and boating community can share their concerns about the closure of the marina and the future use of the area.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Aviation Subcommittee, today introduced a bill to prohibit the use of electronic cigarettes and vaping devices on board airplanes following the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) rule issued yesterday prohibiting passengers and crewmembers from carrying battery-powered portable electronic smoking devices in checked baggage, which did not ban the use of these vaping devices on airplanes.