Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak on the House floor this afternoon on "the outrage of going to what is now called ‘war' without giving District of Columbia residents a vote on the matter." The House of Representatives is currently debating an amendment to the short-term continuing resolution that authorizes the arming and training of Syrian rebel groups fighting against ISIL, the group now terrorizing the Middle East and threatening the United States. Members of the Administration and some in Congress are calling it a war.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in favor of Amit Mehta's nomination to become the first Asian Pacific American judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, as recommended by the Congresswoman to President Obama. Mehta is currently a partner in the law firm Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, where he has been recognized by several legal publications for his exemplary work, including Super Lawyers, The National Law Journal, and Benchmark Litigation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two days after asking the Senate to give the District of Columbia statehood, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be testifying at the House Rules Committee today, at 11:00 a.m. in H-313, The Capitol, to try to retrieve a vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole, a vote she won shortly after being elected to Congress. House Republicans took that vote away when they regained the majority in the 112th Congress.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton, a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, will be delivering the keynote address today, Wednesday, September 17, around noon, at the Department of Energy (DOE) Headquarters, for Federal Labor Recognition Week. Norton, a long-time defender of federal worker rights, will be speaking to the National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 213, the union representing federal employees at DOE Headquarters.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The day after asking the Senate to give the District of Columbia statehood, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she regretted that she must go to the House Rules Committee tomorrow to try to retrieve a vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole, a vote she won shortly after being elected to Congress. House Republicans took that vote away when they regained the majority in the 112^th Congress. Yesterday, Norton testified at a Senate committee hearing on her bill to make D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that yesterday's historic Senate hearing on District of Columbia statehood will be remembered not only because it was the first official senate hearing on D.C. statehood; it will be remembered for reinvigorating the movement for statehood itself and for attracting the largest and most joyful turnout ever at a hearing on a D.C. issue.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) called on District of Columbia residents to observe a moment of silence today to remember the 12 employees killed last year on September 16 in the Washington Navy Yard shooting.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak today at a press conference for the Change the Mascot campaign in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing room, room 628 in the Senate Dirksen Office Building, around noon. Last year, Norton was one of the nine original cosponsors of H.R. 1278, the Non-Disparagement of Native American Persons or Peoples in Trademark Registration Act, which calls for the cancelation of existing trademark registrations containing the Washington football team name.