Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure's Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, will follow up on her recent roundtable on traffic congestion at Union Station by visiting to survey the traffic lanes as well as signage in front of Union Station today, Thursday, October 30, at 5:00 p.m. Norton will speak to the residents and drivers while there, as well as with Union Station Redevelopment Corporation (USRC) Vice President Nzinga Baker.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) roundtable, "An Urgent Mission: Finding Jobs for Unemployed D.C. Residents," tonight will feature a unique discussion on not only unemployed workers, but on employed District of Columbia residents who are earning thousands of dollars less than they did before the Great Recession; on formerly full-time employees, working part-time for the first time; and on others for whom the Great Recession has left them with a new definition of employment or, worse, unemployed.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today announced that, when Congress reconvenes, she will introduce a bill that directs federal agencies to give preferential points to federal government vendors and contractors based on their labor practices. Points would be given to vendors and contractors that pay their employees a living wage with benefits without passing on additional costs to the federal government, as well as for permitting workers to unionize.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will attend the funeral service for Benjamin C. Bradlee, the Washington Post's most distinguished editor, tomorrow, October 29, 11:00 a.m. at the National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Avenue NW. Bradlee spent twenty-six years at the Washington Post, beginning in 1965, and saw the paper through such historic events as the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers. Bradlee went on to win a Public Service award for the Watergate coverage.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a 40th Anniversary of Home Rule for the District event, tonight, October 28, 5:30 p.m. at the John A. Wilson Building Atrium, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a roundtable, entitled "An Urgent Mission: Finding Jobs for Unemployed D.C. Residents," tomorrow, Wednesday, October 29, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the John A.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will attend the annual tennis tournament meeting with Tara Morrison, National Park Service (NPS) Superintendent of Rock Creek Park, Eleni A. Rossides, executive director of Washington Tennis and Education Foundation (WTEF), and community members, today, October 28, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Washington Ethical Society, 7750 16^th Street NW, to discuss the financial audit of WTEF/Lagardere Unlimited.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After hearing that the General Services Administration (GSA) has entered into formal negotiations with the District of Columbia government regarding property located at 49 L Street SE, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said the project is moving further toward the goal of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) consolidation at St. Elizabeths and of disposing of vacant, underutilized federal properties.