Press Releases

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.