Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reiterated that she will fight Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) attempt “to abuse the District of Columbia’s right to self-government to bolster his run for the presidency.” She said that, not coincidentally, just before his speech at the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) upcoming annual meeting, Rubio introduced his bill to wipe out almost all of the District of Columbia’s local safety gun laws.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that the national backlash to the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which allows discrimination in the name of religion, gives momentum to her fight to defeat Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) resolutions that would block two anti-discrimination bills recently passed by the District of Columbia Council from taking effect. Cruz and his far-right allies claim the two D.C. bills violate the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which applies uniquely to D.C. and is similar to the new Indiana law.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) challenged Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), who last week introduced a bill that would wipe out almost all of the District of Columbia’s local gun safety laws, to travel in their own lane and introduce gun bills affecting their own constituents, including allowing guns in federal buildings, such as post offices and social security offices, in their states.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) retirement:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—At the request of the 3rd Annual Sandy Hook Ride on Washington (SHROW), Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a Capitol Hill press conference to call on Congress to take sensible actions to reduce gun violence on Tuesday, March 31, at the House Triangle at 2:00 p.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked the President after White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest responded to a question today about a bill introduced yesterday by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) that would wipe out almost all of the D.C.’s local gun safety laws, including its ban on assault weapons and large capacity magazines and its registration requirements, and would prohibit D.C. from passing gun safety laws in the future. Speaking for the President at a White House press briefing, Earnest said, “Gun laws that are made by the District of Columbia should be made by the District government,” and that “home rule is important.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) today have introduced the National Rifle Association (NRA)-backed District of Columbia gun bill that forced Norton to pull the D.C. House Voting Rights Act from the House floor in April 2010.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today questioned U.S. Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy at a committee hearing to determine the causes of ongoing problems at the agency, including a March 4 incident at the White House in which agents may have interfered with an ongoing bomb investigation outside White House security barricades.