Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Building on the unprecedented hearing in the Senate last Congress, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), today introduced her bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, with a record number of original cosponsors. Last Congress was history-making for the District's efforts to achieve statehood. Norton's statehood bill had a record number of cosponsors in both the House and the Senate, including the top four Senate Democratic Leaders, among them then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee, today said that Norton had requested a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) staff briefing, which occurred this afternoon, and a regional member briefing, which will take place Wednesday, January 21st, at a location to be determined, on Monday's Metro incident. NTSB promised to expedite its preliminary report in fewer than the usual 30 days.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement regarding yesterday's Metro incident that resulted in one death, two critical injuries, and 84 passengers being treated for smoke inhalation and various injuries:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a remembrance of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, whose funeral service was held Tuesday, January 6, 2015.
For Mario Cuomo
"I am among millions of Americans who will not forget three-term governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, who was laid to rest Tuesday. My reasons go beyond his stature as the sage who made poetry out of policy and championed the forgotten middle class and poor in ways that ring especially true today.
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. The Senator was not in the office, but Norton expects to speak with him soon.
Senator Coons was a cosponsor of the New Columbia Admission Act.
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. A little noted Norton amendment banning racial profiling passed in the House Fiscal Year 2015 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (T-HUD) appropriations bill and was included in the fiscal year 2015 omnibus appropriations bill.
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. Norton said, "Parks owned by the NPS but used by neighborhood residents require respect and deference from the parties.
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.