Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that today's passage of a clean fiscal year 2015 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations bill ensures the additional $48.6 million needed for DHS to move into the Center building complex at the DHS campus at St. Elizabeths in Ward 8. The Center building will house the DHS secretary and top DHS officials, and a contractor already has been working on the building. The fiscal year 2015 omnibus appropriations bill, passed in December, included $144 million for DHS consolidation at St. Elizabeths.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday introduced a bill to give the District of Columbia home-rule authority over the D.C. National Guard and strengthen the Guard itself. The bill, the District of Columbia National Guard Home Rule Act, would give the mayor of the District authority that governors have in their states over their Guards. However, in the case of the District, the mayor would be able to deploy the D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that she will fight a sweeping national anti-choice Senate Republican bill that picks out the District of Columbia's women for harsh treatment, even beyond the other women of the country, who are also targets of the bill. The bill would, among other things, permanently prohibit the District of Columbia government from spending its local funds on abortion services for low-income women, prohibit D.C. government employees from providing abortions, prohibit abortions in D.C. government facilities, and define the D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on Senator Barbara Mikulski's (D-MD) announcement that she will not be seeking reelection to the U.S. Senate:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today released the following statement on two separate incidents that occurred outside the White House grounds last night and this morning:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL), co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys, will host a roundtable discussion on policing in communities of color, entitled "Racial Profiling – What Next after Ferguson and New York City," on Tuesday, March 3, at 1:00 p.m. in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building (House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Room).
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will give the keynote address at a Black History Program hosted by the General Services Administration (GSA) Benjamin Banneker Chapter (BBC) of Blacks in Government (BIG) at the GSA Conference Center(1800 F Street NW, rooms 1459-1461) from 12:30 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. Norton serves on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over the GSA.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today decried "unnecessarily hostile congressional reactions" to the District of Columbia's marijuana reform law, Initiative 71, which takes effect on Thursday. Norton said that a letter sent last night by Oversight and Government Reform (OGR) Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, as well as his comments to the media, warning District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and other D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote U.S. Capitol Police Board Chair Frank Larkin urging the board to overturn of the prohibition on sledding on the Capitol Grounds. She said it should not take an act of Congress to get reasonable regulations that allow sledding on Capitol Grounds. "Americans should be able to sled on America's front lawn," Norton wrote.
She noted that the current ban was not enforced for years until children and parents were turned away recently when the District had one of the few snowfalls with snow deep enough for sledding.