Press Releases
August 11, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a meeting with supporters of the New Columbia Admission Act (H.R. 317), her bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, today, Tuesday, August 11, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. in 2253 Rayburn House Office Building.
August 7, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today at noon will visit Right Proper Brewing Company (624 T St. NW), one of a new sector of seven local craft breweries operating in the District of Columbia that she is promoting as an example of the District expanding its brand beyond the national monuments and federal government.
August 6, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement concerning White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest’s statements on statehood for the District of Columbia.
August 6, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be the featured speaker at a networking meeting hosted by the District of Columbia Chapter of Women Grow, a national professional network supporting female entrepreneurs in the cannabis industry, today, Thursday, August 6, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. at 641 S St. NW, Third Floor.
August 5, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today applauded a group of Capitol Hill parents whose children and others from around the city will perform a “sing-in” in front of the U.S. Capitol to support equal voting rights and statehood for the District of Columbia on Sunday, August 9, 2015, at 10:00 a.m.
August 5, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As the Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) prepares for Norton’s annual Job Fair on Friday, August 21, 2015, she announced today that she will begin receiving and publicizing data on the number of District of Columbia residents employed and D.C. small businesses contracted at federal construction sites here, achieved though Norton’s legislative work.
August 4, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes musician James Terrell for a Lunchtime Music on the Mall performance today, Tuesday, August 4, 2015, from noon – 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, at 7th Street and Jefferson Drive SW.
August 4, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that her annual Job Fair – free and open only to District of Columbia residents – will be held Thursday, August 21, 2015, from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at the Washington Convention Center (800 Mount Vernon PL NW – between 7th and 9th Streets NW).
August 3, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that when Congress returns, she will host a briefing on District of Columbia statehood for Members of Congress and staff and the public featuring HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver D.C.
July 31, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Following yesterday’s release of the Office of Compliance’s (OOC) annual report on the state of the congressional workplace, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, announced that she will introduce the Congress Leads By Example Act of 2015 to subject Congress and its agencies to federal health and safety standards and civil rights laws that currently apply to executive branch agencies and private sector employers, but not to Congress.