Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – No sooner was today’s House hearing on D.C.’s marijuana decriminalization bill over than Republican John Fleming (R-LA) told Roll Call that he intends to introduce a disapproval resolution to overturn the legislation.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked the Democrats on the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Representatives (BLAG) – Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) – for declining to join an amicus brief filed today by BLAG that expresses the view of the House that the District of Columbia budget autonomy referendum, approved by 83% of D.C. voters in 2013, is invalid.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement on a bill introduced by Senators Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) today to name Union Station “Harry S. Truman Union Station.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Following the subcommittee markup of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill today and last week’s release of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) four-year surface transportation reauthorization proposal, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit – the subcommittee tasked with writing a surface transportation reauthorization bill this year – issued the following statement.

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released Norton’s testimony in advance of tomorrow’s hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on Government Operations on legislation passed by the District of Columbia decriminalizing marijuana.

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that a bill to amend the Height Act, cosponsored by Norton and sponsored by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), passed the Senate today by unanimous consent.

WASHINGTON, DC – As Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) was on the way to a Democratic Caucus policy hearing on long-term unemployment insurance today, she learned that Republicans, who control access to hearing rooms because of their majority status, had kicked the Members and many long-term unemployed, including the scheduled witnesses, out of the room.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes (D-DC), an original cosponsor of H.R. 863, the “Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Women's History Museum Act of 2013,” will speak on the House floor tomorrow, Wednesday, at approximately 12:30 p.m. in favor of the bill and on the importance of bringing a Women’s History Museum to the nation’s capital.