Press Releases
June 19, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today met with National Park Service (NPS) officials to determine if NPS had a permanent solution to the issues with the Washington Monument’s elevator that have arisen due to electrical problems two years in a row as tourist season began.
June 19, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer remarks at the first annual Juneteenth Book Festival Symposium on Black Literature and Literacy, today, June 19, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. in the Reading Room of the African and Middle Eastern Division (LJ 220) in the Library of Congress’ Thomas Jefferson Building (10 First St. SE).
June 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that she will meet tomorrow with National Park Service (NPS) Superintendent Karen Cucurullo and other NPS officials to discuss how to improve the long-term condition of the Washington Monument’s elevator, which was out of operation for nearly a week for the second straight year as the tourist season began.
June 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the Senate fiscal year 2016 Homeland Security Appropriations bill includes $212 million for consolidation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) headquarters at St. Elizabeths.
June 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, for introducing a bill to modernize and improve the daily operations of the District of Columbia Courts, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA).
June 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to permanently place a statue depicting Pierre L’Enfant, a District of Columbia citizen and designer of the city’s master plan, in the U.S. Capitol. In response to a D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) competition for D.C. statues in the Capitol in 2006, D.C. residents chose L’Enfant as one of the top ten Americans who have given distinguished service to the District.
June 17, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes vocalist Patricia Tommy for a Lunchtime Music on the Mall performance tomorrow, Thursday, June 18, 2015, from noon – 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, at 7th Street and Jefferson Drive SW.
June 17, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she will force a floor vote to remove all anti-democratic riders included in the fiscal year 2016 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, which was passed today by the House Appropriations Committee.
June 17, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today protested on the House floor that she could speak, but not vote, on a resolution to remove troops from Iraq and Syria, unless the President determined it would be unsafe, no later than December 2015 unless troops are authorized.
June 17, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, today said the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) report of its Safety Management Inspection (SMI) of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) rail and bus systems is a “virtual mandate for continuous monitoring of WMATA to guard against safety lapses that cost lives.”