Press Releases
December 2, 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 in the House, yesterday signed the Conference Report for a five-year surface transportation authorization, which includes her major priorities for the District of Columbia and the nation. During the Conference Committee meeting, Norton asked for a five-year authorization instead of the House-passed six-year authorization in order to boost the authorized funding by $12.8 billion annually.
December 1, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will meet with U.S. Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy tomorrow, Wednesday, December 2, 2015, at 2:00 p.m., to discuss corrective actions the agency is taking to secure the White House in the wake of another jumper successfully scaling the White House perimeter fence on Thanksgiving Day.
November 27, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today visited the front of the White House with a television reporter after a man she called the “Thanksgiving Jumper” made it over temporary spikes installed to prevent jumping over the White House perimeter fence.
November 27, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer her gratitude at the Arena Stage’s Fifth Annual Military Thanksgiving to more than 200 District of Columbia-area wounded warriors, service men and women, and their families, who will enjoy dinner and a performance of Oliver! tonight, Friday, November 27, 2015, at 5:30 p.m., at Arena Stage (1101 Sixth Street SW).
November 27, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—With the historic early release of the first 6,000 low-level federal inmates nationwide this month, the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that three federal returning citizens and two D.C. Code returning citizens will testify at a roundtable chaired by Norton on Tuesday, December 1, 2015, at the Old City Council Chambers (441 Judiciary Sq. NW), from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
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.