Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will introduce the Washington National Opera’s Opera in the Outfield at Nationals Park (1500 South Capitol St. SE), tomorrow, Saturday, May 3, 2014, at 6:45 p.m.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold a Norton in Your Neighborhood in Ward 5 with the Bates Area Civic Association at the Mt. Sinai Baptist Church (1615 3rd Street NW – corner of Q and 3rd Streets NW), on Monday, May 5, 2014, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and her staff today, beginning at 10:00 a.m., will lead a tour of the floor of the House of Representatives, of statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in Statuary Hall, and of D.C.’s Frederick Douglass statue and the Sojourner Truth statue in Emancipation Hall.

WASHINGTON, DC – Following a District of Columbia Council hearing on a resolution calling for a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives on the CSX Virginia Avenue Tunnel Project in D.C., Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, said she supports the Council’s efforts.

WASHINGTON, DC – Following actions taken by National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for racist remarks, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement, calling on National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell to take the appropriate action in urging a change of the racist Washington football team name.

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that on May 8, 2014, Norton will testify at a 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 Norton is an original cosponsor of a bipartisan bill introduced yesterday by Congressmen Emmanuel Cleaver (D-MO) and Ted Poe (R-TX) that would 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.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent letters to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), following reports from the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades and DC Jobs for Justice that their workers have been intimidated by their employers, which have threatened to call ICE to enforce immigration laws in response to ongoing labor disputes with the workers.