Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the briefing on District of Columbia statehood with a screening of HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver D.C. statehood segment followed by a question and answer segment, originally scheduled for Wednesday, October 21, 2015, must be postponed because a bill to impose private school vouchers on the District is scheduled to come to the House floor that day.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and its Aviation Subcommittee, today released a letter she wrote to the chairs and ranking members of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and its Aviation Subcommittee requesting a hearing to explore airplane noise and its impacts on residential communities in the District of Columbia and across the United States.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a roundtable with local officials and community leaders to discuss the rise of Hispanic Americans and the Hispanic vote across the nation and in the District of Columbia tonight, Tuesday, October 13, 2015, at Carlos Rosario International Public School Sonia Gutierrez Campus (514 V Street NE) from 7:45 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Highways and Transit Subcommittee, was writing an amendment in response to last week’s emergency National Transportation Safety Board Metro recommendation, she said that she was pleased to see that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is already responding and that they seem to be “on the same page.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) for working with her today to unanimously pass out of committee Senator Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) bill to modernize and improve the daily operations of the District of Columbia Courts, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the House Oversight and Government Committee (OGR), as expected, passed a bill to reauthorize the District of Columbia private school voucher program on a party-line vote, but Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) was able to make some progress on her effort to eliminate fly-by-night voucher schools, which rely solely on the voucher program for their existence.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released an advance copy of her prepared opening statement ahead of a House Oversight and Government Committee (OGR) markup of a bill to reauthorize the District of Columbia private school voucher program tomorrow, Friday, October 9, 2015, at 10:00 a.m., in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today phoned Channing D. Phillips, Senior Counselor to the U.S. Attorney General, to congratulate him on his nomination by President Obama to serve as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.