Press Releases
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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called on District of Columbia residents to remember the children, teachers, and others lost in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As a 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's D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a ribbon cutting ceremony for the re-opening of Dance Place, a performing arts facility in the Brookland neighborhood of Northeast, D.C., today at 4:30 p.m. at 3225 8th Street NE. The building space has been under construction since fall of last year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that Norton was successful in keeping out the House-passed provisions prohibiting the District of Columbia from enforcing its own gun safety laws and from decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana from the fiscal year 2015 short-term continuing resolution (CR) released by the House yesterday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced a National Mall Roundtable for Thursday, September 18th from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that Senator Thomas Carper's (D-DE) announcement of the first District of Columbia statehood hearing in more than two decades highlights "a season of unusual progress for D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) strongly supported Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement today that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will begin a civil rights investigation to determine whether Ferguson, Missouri Police Department routinely engaged in racial profiling or used excessive police force, following the death of Michael Brown.