Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the Highways and Transit subcommittee, today warned District of Columbia and regional residents that the National Park Service (NPS) will begin enforcing a 10-ton load limit on Arlington Memorial Bridge on Monday, June 22.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will attend the investiture ceremony of Judge Amit Mehta, who is the first Asian Pacific American judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, today at 4:30 p.m. at 333 Constitution Avenue NW (Sixth Floor).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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).

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.