Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, today thanked Subcommittee Chairman Tom Petri (R-WI) for introducing the Administration’s surface transportation authorization bill, with Norton as the original Democratic co-sponsor, as a courtesy at the request of the Administration.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will make remarks for about 30 minutes on the House floor today, June 12, at approximately 1:45 p.m., in light of recent attacks against the District of Columbia’s home rule and the upcoming D.C. appropriations bill.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder made a major announcement at a June 10 Father’s Day Forum on Returning Citizens held by the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys, which is co-chaired by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL).

WASHINGTON, D.C. – To mark the start of this season’s Lunchtime Music on the Mall, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a resolution honoring Lunchtime Music on the Mall, sponsored by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the National Park Service (NPS), in conjunction with Norton.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, will speak the 3rd annual Rally for Roads to highlight the fiscal cliff facing the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at 8:30 a.m., at Union Square.

WASHINGTON, DC – In what she called “a breakthrough for legal and social justice,” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) amendment to prohibit states that receive federal transportation funding from engaging in unconstitutional profiling based on physical characteristics, such as race, passed the historically unproductive House by voice vote, last night.

WASHINGTON, DC – This evening, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, from 6:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m., at Dunbar High School (101 N St. NW), Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold her annual Service Academy College Fair to recruit for next year’s service academy classes and to present her 2014 nominees to the service academies.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that D.C. native Amadou Kouyate will kick off Lunchtime Music on the Mall with this season’s first performance, tomorrow, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, from noon until 1:30 p.m., on the National Mall, by the Smithsonian Metro Station, at 12th St. and Jefferson Dr. SW.