Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a press conference today, Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 11:30 a.m. in Cannon 421, to discuss Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-KY) amendment passed yesterday in the House that would ultimately block D.C. from enforcing its local gun laws, as part of the Fiscal Year 2015 Financial Services and General Services Appropriations bill. Norton will be joined by D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, offered a clean water amendment at the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee markup of H.R. 5078, the so-called Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act of 2014. The bill, as currently written, would restrict the Obama administration from going forward with its proposed rule and finalizing its guidance or using them as the basis for any decision regarding the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act.
Washington, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the congressional review period for the District of Columbia's marijuana decriminalization bill will end today, Wednesday, July 16, 2014, and that the bill will take effect on Thursday.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today alerted District of Columbia residents that Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) has filed a new amendment to the fiscal year 2015 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, which the House is debating now, that appears to prohibit the District of Columbia government from using its local fund to enforce almost all of its local gun laws, making D.C. one of if not the most permissive gun jurisdiction in the country. Massie filed the amendment after a similar amendment he offered last night fell on a point of order.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) tonight claimed a legislative victory as Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-KY) amendment to the Fiscal Year 2015 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, which attempted to wipe out all of the District's local gun safety laws, was ruled out of order. Massie may try again tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a resolution marking Saturday, July 26th as National Dance Day, celebrated annually on the last Saturday of July. National Dance Day celebrations began on the National Mall in the District of Columbia and in Los Angeles, California five years ago. This year's celebration will take place on Saturday, July 26, 2014, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., at the Kennedy Center's North Plaza.
Washington, DC -- The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the Obama Administration today called on the House to reject the D.C. marijuana and abortion riders in the Fiscal Year 2015 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, which the House will consider tonight, and grant D.C. budget and legislative autonomy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes vocalist and acoustic guitarist Hari Vasan as the seventh feature performer in the Lunchtime Music on the Mall series on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, from noon to 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, near the Smithsonian Metro Station, at 12th St. and Jefferson Dr. SW.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) bill, H.R. 4185, to give the District of Columbia Courts, Public Defender Service (PDS) and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) authority that will modernize their operations passed in the House today by voice vote. The Norton bill gives the three agencies authority other federal agencies already have.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) bill that requires reporting and data collection on sexual assaults on passenger airlines received broad bipartisan support last week from top members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.