Press Releases
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.”
June 16, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Aviation Subcommittee, today released a letter she wrote to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael P. Huerta to arrange a meeting to discuss persistent helicopter noise throughout the day and night affecting Northwest and Northeast District of Columbia neighborhoods. Helicopter noise was brought to Norton’s attention by residents following a Norton community meeting in May on airplane noise in Ward 3.
June 16, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—At a briefing of the National Capital Region House Delegation, called by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) alerted the delegation to significant safety concerns at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) following its safety management inspection (SMI) of WMATA’s rail and bus transit systems.
June 15, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes the District of Columbia’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts String Orchestra for a Lunchtime Music on the Mall performance tomorrow, Tuesday, June 16, 2015, from noon – 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, at 7th Street and Jefferson Drive SW.
June 15, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a frequent performer in the annual, long-running comedic event “Will on the Hill” hosted by the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC), will appear in the performance tonight, June 15, at 7:30 p.m. at Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW).
June 12, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will march in the 40th annual Capital Pride Parade with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, as she has every year since being elected to Congress, tomorrow, Saturday, June 13, 2015, beginning at 4:30 p.m. at 22nd and P Streets NW.
June 11, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will give remarks at the commencement ceremony of her high school alma mater, Dunbar High School, tomorrow, Friday, June 12, 2015, at 9:30 a.m. in Howard University’s Crampton Auditorium.
June 11, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the launch ceremony of the brand new DC Circulator National Mall route tomorrow, Friday, June, 12, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. at the Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Circle NW).