Press Releases
July 8, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), today said that her office is in contact with District of Columbia Postmaster Gerald Roane’s office about the planned closing of the Petworth Post Office (4211 9th St. NW), which will take effect on Tuesday, July 28, 2015.
July 7, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will help cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the new Ben’s Chili Bowl at 1001 H Street NE tomorrow, Wednesday, July 8, at 11:00 a.m.
July 7, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes artist Princess Best for a Lunchtime Music on the Mall performance today, Tuesday, July 7, 2015, from noon – 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, at 7th Street and Jefferson Drive SW.
July 4, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton will walk in today’s Palisades Fourth of July Parade with the Girl Scouts of Greater Washington, D.C. in what has become the District of Columbia’s unofficial community parade.
July 3, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued a statement today upon reflecting on yesterday’s call from the Washington Navy Yard that drew federal, local, and regional law enforcement.
July 3, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that as the nation on Saturday celebrates 239 years since declaring its independence from Great Britain because of taxation without representation, Congress must take the nation’s founding slogan to heart and grant the District of Columbia statehood.
July 2, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) again thanked House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for her longtime support for autonomy, voting rights and statehood for the District of Columbia, after Leader Pelosi made Norton’s tweet today on D.C. statehood the “Digital Dems Early Bird,” which is a Member tweet each workday on a Democratic Caucus priority that Members are asked to retweet.
July 2, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called on Donald Trump to apologize and make the current controversy that he does not need and the country could certainly do without, go away. Trump won a competition to remodel the Old Post Office building downtown into a luxury hotel as a result of a Norton bill.
July 2, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the EEOC’s founding today, Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at the EEOC Headquarters Training Center (131 M St. NE). EEOC Chair Jenny R. Yang, civil rights leaders, and past and present EEOC employees will also offer remarks.
July 1, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement after President Obama announced that the Administration has reached a deal with Cuba to re-establish diplomatic relations and re-open embassies.