Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today offered her thoughts on the announcement that her friend, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), will not be seeking reelection to the U.S. Senate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today telephoned Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) to applaud the city's good fortune with the announcement that the Senator will serve as ranking member on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, which has jurisdiction over D.C. appropriation.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that as rank and file police prepare to come to the nation's capital on January 17, 2015 for a "Sea of Blue" march, the District will welcome them as we have others to assert their concerns.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a letter to Peter May, National Park Service (NPS) Associate Regional Director for Lands, Planning, and Design for the National Capital Region, asking him to meet with her before taking any further action on approving the Francis Marion Memorial, and he has agreed.
When the House Republican majority offered the Rules for the 114th Congress this afternoon, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), in an attempt to restore to the Rules the District of Columbia's delegate vote in the Committee of the Whole, offered the required motion to refer the rules to a special committee regarding the delegate vote.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will force the first substantive vote in the House in the 114th Congress on Tuesday, January 6, 2014, at approximately 1:45 p.m., on the District of Columbia's ability to vote in the Committee of the Whole on the House floor.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released Norton's remarks for the press conference today at 10:30 a.m. in Cannon 421 calling on House Republicans to restore the District of Columbia's vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole in the 114th Congress.
WASHINGTON, DC – Before the 114th Congress convenes, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has begun the fight to restore an equal citizenship right District of Columbia residents won, but was taken away by House Republicans in the 112th Congress. In her first public appearance in the Congress, D.C.
For herself and D.C. residents, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton offered her deepest sympathy to Anne Brooke on the passing of former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, the nation's first African American popularly elected senator. Senator Brooke, who was 95, grew up in LeDroit Park and attended Dunbar High School here in the District.
Reports on the cost to the District of Columbia of providing public safety at marches and demonstrations here on racial profiling in law enforcement nationwide have not noted that Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), at least since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, has secured annual federal payments for the costs to the city of emergency planning and security related to the pre