Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today got a commitment from the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair, Bill Shuster (R-PA), and the Ranking Member, Nick Rahall (D-WV), to advance a provision to require the collection of data on sexual assaults that occur on airplanes, and therefore did not offer her bill, the “Protecting Airline Passengers from Sexual Assaults Act of 2014,” as an amendment to H.R. 4156, the Transparent Airfares Act, at the committee markup.

WASHINGTON, DC – In advance of D.C. Emancipation Day, April 16, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 10:00 a.m., will continue her call on the House floor this week for statehood for the nearly 650,000 residents of the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today filed her bill to require the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to collect and maintain data on sexual assaults that occur on airplanes as an amendment to H.R. 4156, the Transparent Airfares Act, and intends to offer it as an amendment at the Committee markup of H.R. 4156 tomorrow, April 9, 2014, at 10:00 a.m., in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, DC – In advance of D.C. Emancipation Day, April 16, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today spoke on the House floor to call for D.C. statehood, using official government figures that show D.C. pays more in federal taxes per capita than any state in the Union – even though D.C. residents have no vote in the House and no Senators.

WASHINGTON, DC – In advance of D.C. Emancipation Day, April 16, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at 10:00 a.m., will make her first of three trips this week to speak on the House floor to call for statehood for the nearly 650,000 residents of the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, DC – With Equal Pay Day tomorrow, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who enforced both the 1963 Equal Pay Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act as the first female chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), issued a statement today on President Obama’s executive actions for equal pay for women and transparency in the workplace, which he will announce tomorrow.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) received a response earlier this month to a letter she sent to the National Park Service (NPS) requesting a progress report on the status of the Rock Creek Park trail project and its Environmental Assessment (EA), as well as a timeline for next steps in the process.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to pave the way for desperately needed investment and improvements at the three federally owned golf courses in the District of Columbia – Langston Golf Course, Rock Creek Golf Course and East Potomac Golf Course.