Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a letter Norton sent Wednesday to Robert Vogel, National Park Service (NPS) Superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, asking him to consider a lottery system similar to the one that the District of Columbia uses for stationary vendors and food trucks on the National Mall. This month, the D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a letter Norton sent today to the White House Security Review Panel, asking them to use the "least restrictive means necessary to address security concerns" as they reassess security around the White House perimeter.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today offered some steps District of Columbia hospitals should take to bolster their Ebola preparedness, following a response to a letter Norton sent to D.C. hospitals asking about their Ebola preparedness. Norton said that she was pleased that the D.C. Department of Health had been proactive on Ebola since August and that the preparedness checklist she recommended showed that D.C. hospitals have achieved basic preparedness for Ebola. The response, collected from the hospitals by the D.C.

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.