Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C.—After the Senate passed its reauthorization the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) today and after the House passed its bill last week, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that all amendments introduced in the House and Senate to establish national voucher programs as part of ESEA reauthorization had failed, “starkly demonstrating that there is no support nationally or in Congress for private school vouchers.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) recently became the first House Member to cosponsor the Synthetic Abuse and Labeling of Toxic Substances Act of 2015 (SALTS Act, H.R. 1186), a bill that would help law enforcement crack down on synthetic drugs, such as K2, Bath Salts, Spice, Scooby Snax, and others.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a “bottoming out” event for The Wharf, marking the end of site excavation for the first phase of the 24-acre mixed-use waterfront community, today, Thursday, July 16, 2015, at 11:30 a.m. at 690 Water Street SW.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, will speak at a film screening and subsequent panel discussion of the women leaders of the civil rights era as part of the first night of the March on Washington Film Festival today, Wednesday, July 15, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. at the Historic Metropolitan A.M.E. Church (1518 M St. NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a resolution marking Saturday, July 25th as National Dance Day, celebrated annually on the last Saturday of July. National Dance Day celebrations began on the National Mall in the District of Columbia and in Los Angeles, California in 2010.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, today took to the House floor to call on Congress to pass a long-term, six-year surface transportation bill and update the gas user fee for the first time in 22 years.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that, in a conversation today, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally told Norton that she strongly supports statehood for the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the final nuclear deal reached among Iran, the United States and major world powers, which would phase out economic sanctions in exchange for Iran’s assenting to cut off its pathway to a nuclear bomb.