Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today pressed upon her House colleagues the urgency of passing her bill, the RECOVER Act, to provide free lifetime identity theft coverage to current, former and prospective federal employees whose personal data were compromised by Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breaches in light of yesterday’s announcement by OPM that 5.6 million fingerprints were compromised, more than five times the original 1.1 million estimate.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, who is still trying to increase the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) special capital improvement appropriation that has been cut by $25 million in the House for fiscal year 2016, released the following statement on the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) approval of WMATA’s Corrective Action Plan to address safety violations found earlier this year after FTA’s Safety Management Inspection (SMI).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today had a productive phone conversation with U.S. Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy during which she expressed her deep concern and disappointment that the Secret Service ejected hundreds of children with cancer and their parents from Lafayette Park as they began their permitted candlelight vigil scheduled for 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. on Saturday evening to raise awareness for childhood cancer and cancer research.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a bipartisan press conference with Congressman Charlie Dent (R-PA), Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT) and Congressman David Jolly (R-FL) to introduce the Synthetic Drug Control Act, authored by Congressman Dent, to combat the growing proliferation of synthetic/designer drugs today, Friday, September 18, 2015, at the House Triangle (SE corner of Capitol), from 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decisions in 2011 and today upholding the constitutionality of almost all of D.C.’s major gun safety laws should put an end to congressional effort to repeal them. The appeals court has upheld the District’s registration requirements for all guns, its ban on assault weapons and its ban on large capacity magazines.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today condemned House Republicans for voting to defund Planned Parenthood for one year and said the partisan bill would not defund abortion services, since federal funding already cannot be used to pay for abortions under federal law.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was grateful to Patricia Gomez, a senior at Archbishop Carroll High School, for agreeing to help her office draw recipients of standing-room tickets to watch Pope Francis address Congress tomorrow, Friday, September 18, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. in her congressional office (2136 Rayburn House Office Building).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congressman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) is encouraging residents to receive health screenings, information, and support services by many of the region’s leading health care providers and organizations at a free health clinic Thursday, September 17, 2015, from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (901 G St. NW).