Press Releases

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.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement on the passing of her friend Dr. Maya Angelou today.

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.

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).

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.

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).

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).

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).