Press Releases
April 2, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that Norton, a member of the House Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee, will host a roundtable on U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) holdover leases in the national capital region on Thursday, April 16, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. in 2253 Rayburn House Office Building.
April 2, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In the wake of national concern and demonstrations, the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced two actions to reduce racial profiling. Norton wrote U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx requesting regulations or appropriate action to implement her anti-racial-profiling amendment passed by the House and signed into law as part of the fiscal year 2015 omnibus appropriations bill.
April 2, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As the April 15 deadline for filing taxes approaches, the office Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) alerted residents that due to budget cuts to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), after April 15 there will be substantial reductions in IRS services and resources, both in-person and over the phone.
April 2, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement regarding the framework for a final nuclear deal reached today among Iran and the United States and major world powers that would phase out economic sanctions in return for Iran agreeing to reduce the size and scope of its nuclear program:
April 1, 2015
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.
March 31, 2015
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.
March 30, 2015
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.
March 27, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) retirement:
March 27, 2015
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.
March 27, 2015
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.”