Press Releases
July 30, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued the following prepared statement for today’s rally with immigration rights groups at the John A. Wilson Building reaffirming the city’s home-rule right to be a sanctuary city and detailing the efforts she is taking to ensure that neither the national anti-immigrant bill, which was passed by the House, or the separate anti-home-rule bill that targets D.C. immigrants becomes law.
July 29, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today continued her efforts to reform the Smithsonian Institution by introducing the Open and Transparent Smithsonian Act of 2015 to ensure that the Smithsonian is accountable to the public, whose taxpayer funds it receives.
July 29, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today at an Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on sexual harassment at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) called on her Republican colleagues to cosponsor bills placing interns in the public and private sectors under the jurisdiction of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
July 29, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a set of questions that she sent today to National Parks Service (NPS) Associate Director of Business Services Lena McDowall regarding ways to improve visitor enjoyment on the National Mall following last week’s Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing examining current NPS concessions policies.
July 28, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes violinist and District of Columbia’s Duke Ellington School for the Arts alumnus Raycurt Johnson, also known as FIDDLA, for a Lunchtime Music on the Mall performance today, Thursday, July 23, 2015, from noon – 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, at 7th Street and Jefferson Drive SW.
July 27, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s markup last Thursday of a resolution authorizing $18 million for design costs for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) headquarters consolidation project at St. Elizabeths is another important indication of the intention of Congress to complete the DHS headquarters consolidation.
July 27, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will thank We the People For Sensible Gun Laws for their tireless activism at an event marking the group’s three years of demonstrating for gun safety reform each Monday in front of the White House, today, Monday, July 27, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. in front of the White House.
July 24, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Before she gets to join in the dancing fun at tomorrow’s National Dance Day celebration at the Kennedy Center, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will welcome to the stage the nationally-renowned Cyrus “Glitch” Spencer, runner-up on Season 9 of So You Think You Can Dance, and the celebrity host of this year’s event.
July 23, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) applauded the Republican-led Senate Appropriations Committee, which today approved a fiscal year 2016 District of Columbia Appropriations bill that does not contain any anti-home-rule riders, exempts D.C. from a shutdown in fiscal year 2017, and provides critical funding she requested for the District.
July 23, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a leader in the fight against an anti-immigrant bill precipitously put on the House floor today, said that House Republicans have gone on record aligning themselves with the far-right-Trump wing of their party.