Press Releases
April 15, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today was honored by the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) for her work benefitting the lives of people with Down syndrome and their families at the 2015 NDSS Champion of Change Congressional Breakfast Reception.
April 15, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, will offer an amendment today at the markup of H.R. 1732, the so-called “Regulatory Integrity Protection Act,” to try to keep Republicans from undermining current regulatory efforts to protect clean water sources.
April 15, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Not long after a disapproval resolution was introduced on Monday that would license discrimination against District of Columbia women in the workplace, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) pledged to fight yet another disapproval resolution introduced yesterday that would permit discrimination against LGBT students by their own universities.
April 15, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) tonight will conclude her District of Columbia Emancipation Week floor speeches by hosting a special order hour on the House floor at 6:00 p.m. tonight in preparation for Emancipation Day, Thursday, April 16.
April 14, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, Tuesday, April 14, at 10:00 a.m., will take to the House floor for the first of three speeches dedicated to advocating for statehood for the District of Columbia leading up to D.C. Emancipation Day on Thursday, April 16.
April 14, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In anticipation of a disapproval resolution that was introduced yesterday by Representative Diane Black (R-TN) to overturn a District of Columbia Council bill that protects employees in D.C. from discrimination based on their reproductive health decisions, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has been meeting with national women’s rights and reproductive choice groups preparing to defend the D.C. legislation.
April 14, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who enforced both the 1963 Equal Pay Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act as the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today introduced the Fair Pay Act of 2015 (FPA), to help eliminate the gender wage gap by requiring that if men and women are doing comparable work, they are to be paid comparable wages
April 14, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today took to the House floor for the first of a three-day series of speeches calling for statehood for the District of Columbia leading up to D.C. Emancipation Day on Thursday, April 16. In today’s speech, Norton focused on official government figures that show the District has outpaced many states in casualties in the nation’s wars, even though D.C. residents have no vote in the House and no Senators.
April 13, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today assailed Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), who is expected to announce his candidacy for president today, for once again demonstrating that he has targeted the District of Columbia’s local gun safety laws to “serve his own unabashed political purposes.”
April 10, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton’s District of Columbia statehood bill, the New Columbia Admission Act, has set a new record of House cosponsors (113), breaking the old record set by Norton’s statehood bill last Congress.