Press Releases
July 13, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—After making her third trip to Guantanamo Bay this past weekend, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), today said she was able to tour all parts of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and therefore could compare it to her trip in 2005.
July 13, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and eight National Capital Region cosponsors introduced the RECOVER Act (Reducing the Effects of the Cyberattack on OPM Victims Emergency Response Act of 2015) to provide free lifetime identity theft protection coverage to the more than 22.1 million current, former and prospective federal employees whose personnel data has been compromised by widespread Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breaches.
July 10, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced Joslyn (Josh) Williams as the newest member of Norton’s Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission.
July 10, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), in her work on rail safety for the District of Columbia and as a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, sent her staff on Wednesday to observe rail car safety training exercises being conducted by the D.C. Fire and EMS Department along the CSX railroad.
July 9, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that House Republicans must take responsibility for the fact the Confederate flag continues to fly in Congress. Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in a privileged motion, forced a vote on a resolution to remove any state flag that contains any portion of the Confederate flag from the House side of the U.S. Capitol.
July 9, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), will make her third trip to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to inspect the facilities used to hold terrorist suspects this weekend, beginning tomorrow, Friday, July 10, 2015.
July 9, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes vocalist Kendrick Lytes for a Lunchtime Music on the Mall performance today, Thursday, July 9, 2015, from noon – 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, at 7th Street and Jefferson Drive SW.
July 9, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the ranking member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, today released a letter she wrote to Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy and National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis to arrange a meeting to discuss bike and pedestrian access to the Pennsylvania Avenue plaza and Lafayette Park area in front of the White House.
July 9, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In light of the Office of Personal Management’s (OPM) announcement today that a second data breach on OPM databases has affected more than 21.5 million federal employees and retirees, five times more than the 4.2 million individuals reported in the first data breach, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), announced she will introduce legislation with Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) to provide free lifetime identity theft protection coverage to federal employees and retirees whose personnel data has been compromised.
July 8, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a leader in the effort to cancel the Washington Football Team’s trademark, celebrated today’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee upholding last year’s decision by the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board that the term “Redskins” is disparaging to Native Americans and therefore is ineligible for federal trademark registration.