Press Releases
November 26, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today said she was astonished that a man successfully jumped over the White House fence on Thanksgiving afternoon while the President and the first family were inside, and said that she will ask U.S. Secret Service leadership to meet with her early next week to discuss quick corrective action.
November 23, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) responded today to a new Washington Post poll showing 71% of registered voters in the District of Columbia support statehood.
November 23, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a roundtable to examine ways to ensure assistance for returning citizens to the District of Columbia as they transition back to society, including federal inmates from D.C. whose sentences were retroactively reduced last year by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, on Tuesday, December 1, 2015, at the Old City Council Chambers (441 Judiciary Sq. NW), from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
November 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) after he announced plans to introduce a bill to eliminate the District of Columbia’s gun safety laws.
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.