Press Releases
June 30, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton’s Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission, chaired by Pauline Schneider, is accepting applications until Monday, July 13, 2015, to fill the position of U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia.
June 30, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes Hip-Hop theater artist Goldie E. Patrick for a Lunchtime Music on the Mall performance today, Tuesday, June 30, 2015, from noon – 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, at 7th Street and Jefferson Drive SW.
June 29, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) this evening will give the keynote address at a “Race and the Labor Movement Town Hall,” hosted by the AFL-CIO and the NAACP-District of Columbia chapter, at 6:00 p.m., at the AFL-CIO headquarters (815 16th St. NW). Norton’s address and the subsequent panel and town hall discussion will focus on the intersection between the labor and civil rights movements and their shared goals.
June 26, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a member of the Supreme Court bar and a tenured Georgetown University law professor, issued the following statement on today’s Supreme Court 5-4 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, ruling that the 14th Amendment requires all states to license marriages between same-sex couples.
June 26, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—After requesting House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving correct a mistake in his email sent Wednesday to House Members and staff on the source of the prohibition of weapons on U.S. Capitol Grounds, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) received a response from Irving’s office that he will not be issuing a correction.
June 25, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will get tested and participate in two National HIV Testing Day (Saturday, June 27) events tomorrow, Friday, June 26, 2015, to encourage District of Columbia residents to get tested and to call attention to the D.C.’s success in reducing its HIV/AIDS rate.
June 25, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will participate in a special program hosted by the National Archives, and presented in partnership with the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress, entitled “D.C. Statehood and Representative Democracy,” today, Thursday, June 25, 2015, from 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m., at the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives Museum (700 Constitution Ave. NW).
June 25, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and a constitutional lawyer, released the following statement after today 5-4 Supreme Court ruling to uphold a key provision of the 1968 Fair Housing Act (FHA), which bars discrimination on the basis of race in housing decisions.
June 25, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement as opponents of the Affordable Care Act met defeat in their second challenge to the law in today’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell.
June 25, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was enormously grateful to Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), for introducing today the companion to her bill to grant the District of Columbia statehood with a record 17 original cosponsors, including the top four Senate Democratic leaders: Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Whip Richard Durbin (D-IL), and Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-WA). HSGAC has jurisdiction over D.C.