Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two days after asking the Senate to give the District of Columbia statehood, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be testifying at the House Rules Committee today, at 11:00 a.m. in H-313, The Capitol, to try to retrieve a vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole, a vote she won shortly after being elected to Congress.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton, a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, will be delivering the keynote address today, Wednesday, September 17, around noon, at the Department of Energy (DOE) Headquarters, for Federal Labor Recognition Week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The day after asking the Senate to give the District of Columbia statehood, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she regretted that she must go to the House Rules Committee tomorrow to try to retrieve a vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole, a vote she won shortly after being elected to Congress.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that yesterday's historic Senate hearing on District of Columbia statehood will be remembered not only because it was the first official senate hearing on D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) called on District of Columbia residents to observe a moment of silence today to remember the 12 employees killed last year on September 16 in the Washington Navy Yard shooting.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak today at a press conference for the Change the Mascot campaign in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing room, room 628 in the Senate Dirksen Office Building, around noon. Last year, Norton was one of the nine original cosponsors of H.R.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her written testimony for tomorrow's Senate District of Columbia statehood hearing at 3:00 p.m. in room 342 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will give the keynote address at a graduation ceremony for the DC Advocacy Partners (DC AP) leadership training program at the University of the District of Columbia tomorrow, Saturday, September 13, at 1:00 p.m.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said it will be a unique pleasure to see Judge Robert L. Wilkins formally sworn in as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today at4:30 p.m. at 333 Constitution Avenue NW.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As another lead up to the District of Columbia statehood hearing in the Senate on Monday, September 15, the Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton has gotten special time to speak about District of Columbia statehood, and the reasons for the Monday Senate hearing, during the second special order hour around 2:00 p.m.