Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer brief remarks at the 25th anniversary of The Foundation For Ethnic Understanding, Thursday, June 19, 2014, from 4-6 p.m. at the Mansfield Room (S-207) of the United States Capitol.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a leader in the effort to cancel the Washington Football Team's trademark and to convince the team's owner and the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) to voluntarily change the team's name, today celebrated the ruling by the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board that the te
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she will be one of the recipients of the "Highway Safety Hero" Award, to be presented today, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, at 3:30 p.m. at the Sewell/Belmont House on Capitol Hill (144 Constitution Avenue NE).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the school year in the District of Columbia and across the country ends, bringing thousands of people to Washington to open the summer season, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reintroduced the United States Commission on an Open Society with Security Act.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked the District of Columbia Council for introducing a resolution supporting federal action to rename a street near the Chinese Embassy for a Chinese activist jailed for supporting democracy and a bill symbolically designating a portion of First Street NE/SE between Constitution Avenue NE and Independence Avenue SE as "D.C.
Washington, DC -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said the House's draft fiscal year 2015 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, which will be marked up tomorrow, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, by the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, was mostly good news with a couple of exceptions that she thinks she can fix.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked DC Vote and a coalition of 41 national and local groups for urging Members of Congress in a letter today to respect the District of Columbia's home rule during consideration of the fiscal year 2015 D.C.
Washington, DC—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a regular at "Will on the Hill," has been invited again to appear in Shakespeare Theatre's Will on the Hill, an annual, bipartisan event that blends politics and theater.
WASHINGTON, DC—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) is pleased to announce Nila Kay Jackson as the first performer for Lunchtime Music on the Mall, which was slated to begin last Tuesday, but was cancelled due to rain. Ms. Jackson is scheduled to perform today, June 17, 2014, from noon-1 p.m. Ms.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and others on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Special Panel on Public-Private Partnerships (P3 Panel) will travel in New York City on Monday, June 16 for a roundtable policy discussion on private investment in infrastructure using public-private partnerships.