Press Releases
October 21, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), in opposing a bill to reauthorize the District of Columbia private school voucher program, today tried to protect students who are already in the program by allowing every current voucher student to remain until their graduation.
October 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will join House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chair G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) for a roundtable discussion with Howard University students on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, from 11:00 a.m. – noon, at Howard’s Founders Library Browsing Room (500 Howard PL. NW).
October 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, today introduced the Protect Riders of Metrorail Public Transportation (PROMPT) Act of 2015 with Congresswomen Donna F. Edwards (D-MD) and Barbara Comstock (R-VA), both of whom also serve on the Highways and Transit Subcommittee.
October 20, 2015
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders today introduced the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 (H.R. 3763), a bipartisan, multi-year surface transportation bill to reauthorize and reform federal highway, transit, and highway safety programs.
October 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will testify against a reauthorization bill to impose a private school voucher program on the District of Columbia at a House Rules Committee hearing scheduled for today, Tuesday, October 20, at 5:00 p.m. in H-313.
October 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she appreciated the Obama administration’s Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) strongly opposing Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) bill, H.R. 10, to reauthorize the District of Columbia private school voucher program.
October 19, 2015
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.
October 15, 2015
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.
October 13, 2015
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.
October 9, 2015
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.”