Skip to main content

Press Releases

July 3, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton tomorrow will march in the 48th Annual Palisades Fourth of July Parade, organized by the Palisades Citizens Association, with the Girl Scouts of Greater Washington, D.C. Norton said, "This Palisades Parade is great fun because it is a true hometown parade."


July 3, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that the Senate Appropriations Committee's fiscal year 2015 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill provides $48.6 million for consolidation of the DHS headquarters, currently under construction on the West Campus of St. Elizabeths in Ward 8.


July 2, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC – Following the release of the District's annual report on HIV/AIDS by Mayor Vincent Gray today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) praised the District of Columbia on its "huge progress to erase the city's HIV/AIDS epidemic."


July 1, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) June 24 letter, she was notified today by the U.S.


July 1, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who sits on the subcommittee with jurisdiction over the U.S. Census, encouraged District residents today to apply for Census positions to assist the U.S. Census Bureau with testing for preparation of the 2020 Census.

July 1, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC -- The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter sent yesterday from Norton to National Park Service (NPS) Director Jonathan B. Jarvis and U.S. Park Police (USPP) Acting Chief Robert D. MacLean concerning a dangerous increase in crime in Sherman Circle and the intersection at Crittenden Street.


June 30, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) today released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby contraception ruling:


June 30, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC— The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that guitarist and vocalist Jeff Cramer will be a featured performer at this week's Lunchtime Music on the Mall. The performance will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, July 1, 2014, from noon to 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, by the Smithsonian Metro Station, at 12th St.


June 27, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC -- The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter from Norton to the National Park Service (NPS) urging NPS to resolve the Fort Reno annual summer concert series permitting issue at its Monday meeting with the concert organizer.

Norton's full letter follows.

June 27, 2014

Tara D. Morrison