Press Releases

Washington, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the names of the seven Members of the House Appropriations Committee who voted yesterday to block the District of Columbia's marijuana decriminalization bill despite the fact that their own states have either decriminalized or legalized marijuana.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to provide the District of Columbia Courts (D.C. Courts) and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) with the same authority that federal courts and federal agencies have to offer voluntary separation incentive payments, or buyouts, to their employees.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will receive the Pillar of Justice Legacy Award at the 2014 A. Leon Higginbotham Corporate Leadership Award Dinner in New York City on Thursday, June 26, 2014. The dinner is part of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law's 2014 A.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) vowed to continue the fight to protect D.C.'s home rule after the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment, sponsored by Representative Andy Harris (R-MD), to the fiscal year 2015 District of Columbia Appropriations bill that blocks the District from decriminalizing marijuana.

WASHINGTON, DC – As Stephen Colbert winds down The Colbert Report over the next few months, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will make another appearance on The Colbert Report tonight,Wednesday, June 25, 2014.

Washington, DC -- The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Representative Andy Harris (R-MD), a second-term tea party supporter, confirmed today to Roll Call that he will offer an amendment to the fiscal year 2015 District of Columbia Appropriations bill tomorrow to try to block D.C.'s marijuana decriminalization bill. Norton warned D.C.

WASHINGTON, DC -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was relieved, even elated, that the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government's fiscal year 2015 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, approved today, meets the congresswoman's priorities, especially full funding for the D.C.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote to the Secretary of the U.S.