Press Releases
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.
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. Norton said, "The irony of the honor of becoming the nation's capital at the price of losing our democratic rights has been too bold to let stand."
Norton's remarks, as prepared, for delivery follow:
Statement of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
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. Mayor Muriel Bowser will join Norton at a press conference on Monday, January 5, at 10:30 a.m., in Cannon 421. Also speaking will be Kerwin Miller, a D.C. veteran, graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, chair of Norton's Service Academy Board, and former director of the 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.