Press Releases

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.

WASHINGTON, DC – Following the release of the witness list for this week’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, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) applauded D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray for not providing a policy official to testify at the hearing, and instead sending a law enforcement official as a courtesy.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, made the following statement on the passing of former Congressman Jim Oberstar.

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.