Press Releases
May 30, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement on the District of Columbia Council’s decision to decline to fund D.C. Promise, a new college access program, in its fiscal year 2015 budget, considering that the federal government already fully funds a unique college access program for D.C. residents, the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant (DCTAG) program.
May 29, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will lead a Special Order Hour on the House floor honoring Dr. Maya Angelou tomorrow, Friday, May 30, 2014, during the first hour after votes in the afternoon. Norton has asked her colleagues to join her.
May 29, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a panel at the 8th annual DC Latino Pride: La Plática Panel Discussion today, Thursday, May 29, at 7:45 p.m., at the Human Rights Campaign Equity Forum, at 1640 Rhode Island Ave. NW.
May 29, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – To round out National Physical Fitness Month, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced her Lifelong Improvements in Food and Exercise Act.
May 28, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement on the passing of her friend Dr. Maya Angelou today.
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).