Press Releases
May 23, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – With the outdoor festivities of Memorial Day upon D.C., the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Lunchtime Music on the Mall will begin on Tuesday, June 10 and will run through the summer on the National Mall, by the Smithsonian Metro Station, at 12th St. and Jefferson Dr. SW.
May 23, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – To kick off the 24th annual DC Black Pride Festival, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will join members of the District of Columbia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community this evening, Friday, May 23, 2014, at 7:15 p.m., at the Grand Hyatt Hotel (1000 H St NW).
May 22, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was elated that her work and the efforts of other members of the regional delegation succeeded in getting $150 million for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) included in the House fiscal year 2015 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill, which passed the House Appropriations Committee yesterday.
May 22, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the graduation reception for a 2014 Naval Academy Graduate she nominated for the Academy, Anthony Clay Jr., tomorrow, Friday, May 23, 2014, at 8:00 p.m., at the Navy Yard Conference Center (1454 Parsons Ave SE Bldg. 211).
May 22, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – As fully expected, Representative Phil Gingrey’s (R-GA) amendment expressing the sense of Congress – which has no legal effect – that active duty military personnel in their private capacity should be exempt from the gun safety laws of the District of Columbia, but not elsewhere, passed the House last night as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (NDAA).
May 21, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that a bipartisan bill to redesignate Pershing Park, a federal park in the District of Columbia, as the “National World War I Memorial” and preserve the District of Columbia War Memorial for D.C. veterans only today passed as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (NDAA).
May 21, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) spoke with National Park Service (NPS) Superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks Robert Vogel yesterday regarding reports of elevator glitches in the Washington Monument, following the temporary elevator breakdown last week.
May 21, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton got the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) to place a groundwater testing well in a roadway rather than a residential park in the Spring Valley neighborhood in Northwest D.C.
May 20, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold a National Park Service (NPS) town hall meeting with expert panelists to explore many new ideas for the city’s federal parks and how residents can work with NPS, which owns most of the city’s parks, to enliven D.C.’s green spaces and adapt them to the needs of the individual neighborhoods where they are located.
May 19, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building 226, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will introduce Randolph Moss at his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, as recommended to President Obama by the Congresswoman.