Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today offered condolences to the family of Benjamin C. Bradlee, the Washington Post's most distinguished editor, and called him "the father of investigative journalism." 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. Norton commended his commitment to the First Amendment and to government accountability and transparency.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will deliver opening remarks at the swearing-in ceremony of Jenny R. Yang, the first Asian-American EEOC chair, today, October 21, 3:30 p.m. at EEOC Headquarters, 131 M Street NE. Norton, who was appointed in 1977 to the EEOC as the first female chair by President Jimmy Carter and enforced federal job discrimination laws, will honor the achievements of outgoing EEOC chair Jacqueline A. Berrien and welcome Yang into her new position.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a "Norton in Your Neighborhood" community conversation tomorrow, Tuesday, October 21, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the campus of Howard University's School of Divinity, 1400 Shepherd Street NE. Norton invites Brookland area residents, and other District of Columbia residents, to join her and the Brookland Neighborhood Civic Association in a community discussion on preserving Brookland Green at Brookland-CUA Metro Station, furthering D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will participate in a panel discussion on District of Columbia voting rights after the screening of "Un-Natural State" at the Decade of Docs in Our City film festival, tomorrow, Saturday, October 18, at 5:00 p.m. at the U.S. Navy Memorial Burke Theater at 701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Norton plays a prominent role in the 2009 documentary, which focuses on D.C.'s lack of full and equal representation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter Norton sent to District of Columbia hospitals seeking to ensure they are "fully prepared should an Ebola patient walk through their doors." She said that the purpose of her letter was to see if specific assistance is needed from the federal government.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – After the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that Dallas health care worker Nina Pham will be transferred to the Bethesda NIH campus for Ebola virus treatment and isolation, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said the United States needs more than just four hospitals with special isolation units designed to contain infectious diseases like Ebola.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a rally, entitled "Low Wage Economy Exposed," tomorrow, October 16, around 11:30 a.m., with low-wage workers outside of the AFL-CIO Headquarters at 815 16th St. NW, followed by a march to the Walton Family Foundation's offices at 919 18th St NW.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter Norton sent to United States Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe that asks him to reconsider the consolidation of more than 80 mail-processing centers in January 2015 that will delay First-Class and other mail delivery, without public input.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, before a packed audience of immigrants at her roundtable, entitled "D.C. and the Surge of Unaccompanied Minors from Central America," at Carlos Rosario International Public School, said that this country's so-called War on Drugs fostered the violent climate in Central America when gang members were deported there, and now tens of thousands of Central American children are fleeing to the United States. Norton said, "It was understandable that the U.S.