Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Washington football team prepares to play at Fedex Field on Thursday, the Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that, when the House reconvenes, Norton will introduce legislation to strip the National Football League (NFL) of its tax exempt status as long as it continues to promote the current name of its Washington football team. Norton's bill will be the House companion to Senator Maria Cantwell's (D-WA) bill, which she announced last week at a Change the Mascot campaign press conference.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a letter Norton sent today asking for a meeting with U.S. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson to discuss recent security breaches at the White House. Norton is concerned about the call for action before an investigation reveals what, if any, action is necessary.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After participating in a House Homeland Security Committee hearing yesterday on a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the consolidation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) headquarters at St. Elizabeths in Ward 8 of the District of Columbia, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said the DHS consolidation at St. Elizabeths now appears settled. She said the GAO's report, released yesterday, criticized some DHS and General Services Administration (GSA) planning practices at St.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton will speak at Mary's Housearound 4:00 p.m. this Saturday, September 20, in the Fort Dupont Park neighborhood of the District of Columbia. Mary's House will serve as a community for elderly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) D.C. residents.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a set of recommendations that originated at Norton's National Mall Roundtable on Thursday, and invited residents to continue to contribute suggestions for improvements to the Mall, particularly those that would benefit resident use.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), as Grand Marshal, will lead the Parade of Nations, walking for the 43rd annual Fiesta D.C. Festival by walking down Constitution Avenue between 7th Street NW and 14th Street NW, beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 21.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Congress recessed last night until after the elections, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) chastised her colleagues in the House for closing with a package of deeply ideological bills that failed to move in the Senate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak on the House floor around 6:00 p.m. tonight, after last votes, to thank Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), chairman of the Senate committee with jurisdiction over District of Columbia matters, for holding the first-ever Senate hearing on D.C. statehood and the first congressional hearing on D.C. statehood in more than two decades earlier this week. Norton's floor speech can be viewed live on C-SPAN or on www.cspan.org/live.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that the Senior Executive Service Accountability Act, H.R. 5169, which passed by voice vote on Tuesday, included Norton's amendment to protect due process rights for federal workers. Although Norton opposed the final bill, which makes it easier to terminate the employment of members of the Senior Executive Service (SES), her amendment maintains the federal government standard of 30 days' advanced notice of suspension or termination.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and a leading Republican constitutional scholar and practitioner, Viet Dinh, have concluded that a challenge to the constitutionality of the District of Columbia statehood bill may be outside the courts' purview, and that, in any case, there is likely a constitutional basis for the D.C. statehood bill. CRS is the non-partisan legislative branch agency that provides legal and policy analysis to Congress, and Dinh is a former U.S.