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. Graduates from the program have been trained in advocacy communications for disability rights, so as to better engage with their local and federal representatives to influence policy that supports an inclusive environment and better services for those living with developmental disabilities.
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. Wilkins was the first of Norton's recommendations to President Obama for a vacancy on the District Court for the District of Columbia. He is her first judicial recommendation to be promoted to the U.S. Court of Appeals.
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. today after the last House votes of the week. Yesterday, Norton announced that her D.C.
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. statehood bill, the New Columbia Admission Act, set a record of 104 House cosponsors, the most since the bill was first introduced in the House, in 1983, by her predecessor Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy, who set the previous record of 101 House cosponsors for the bill, in 1987.
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. on Capitol Hill. The roundtable will focus on the recently enacted National Park Service (NPS) turf restoration regulations affecting events on the grass, food truck vendors receiving fines from the U.S. Park Police (USPP), food on the Mall, and transportation issues, including bringing a Circulator route to the Mall.
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. statehood." Senator Carper, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is one of the sponsors of the Senate companion bill to Norton's D.C. statehood bill, the New Columbia Admission Act.
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.