Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of Columbia Budget Autonomy Act of 2015, her second bill of the 114th Congress, to allow D.C.'s local budget to take effect after it is approved by the city without congressional approval. Today's bill seeks to continue the progress Norton made last Congress on budget autonomy, including keeping Congress from overturning the budget autonomy referendum overwhelmingly approved by D.C. voters in 2013, support from President Obama, whose budgets would have granted D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has written President Barack Obama requesting he include in his fiscal year 2016 budget continued funding for the construction of the consolidated headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the St. Elizabeths campus in Ward 8 in the District of Columbia. Norton thanked the President for his strong commitment in the past to the St.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who serves on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today said that federal agencies need to clarify existing federal policy specifying that drones and other unmanned aircraft may not be flown in the National Mall area, including the White House grounds.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today joined Joint Economic Committee Ranking Member and lead sponsor Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and other Democratic members at a press conference to introduce the Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act (FEPPLA), legislation that would provide six weeks of paid leave to federal employees for the birth, adoption or foster placement of a child.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement today on the passing of Martha Wright, the District of Columbia grandmother who successfully petitioned the Federal Communications Commission FCC to change inmate calling services, which had allowed phone companies to charge prison inmates exorbitant phone rates to call their friends and loved ones:
Washington, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton has been elected by her fellow Democrats on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to return as Ranking Member of its Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. The Committee is considered particularly important because it has one of the largest authorization bills in the Congress and impacts every congressional district. Norton's subcommittee is due to write the surface transportation authorization bill, the major authorization bill from the committee this year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked her good friend, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (MD-5), for introducing a House resolution to amend the House Rules and allow U.S. Delegates and the Resident Commissioner to vote on the House Floor in the Committee of the Whole.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement regarding the announcement that U.S. Parole Commission (USPC) Chairman Isaac Fulwood Jr. will be retiring, effective at the end of the month: