Press Releases
April 4, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) spoke by phone with Randolph Moss yesterday to inform him that President Obama would nominate him to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, as recommended by the Congresswoman.
April 3, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement on D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray’s decision to decline to fund D.C. Promise, a new college access program, in his fiscal year 2015 budget, considering that the federal government already fully funds a unique college access program for D.C. residents, the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant (DCTAG) program.
April 3, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton announced that Norton’s bill to expand federal tax benefits for mass transit commuters, and to encourage commuters to use mass transit by equalizing tax benefits for mass transit and parking, was included in the tax extenders bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee today.
April 3, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the audit Norton requested of Union Station by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Office of Inspector General was released today.
April 2, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee, today got answers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) to her questions about a munitions site clean-up and placement of a groundwater testing well in the Spring Valley neighborhood in Northwest D.C., at a subcommittee hearing.
April 1, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (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,” reiterated the importance of bringing a Women’s History Museum to the nation’s capital and said that she is excited and grateful that after years of effort, a bill to establish the museum is moving.
April 1, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that Norton, a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, intends to ask questions regarding pressing local D.C. issues, including the Spring Valley munitions site clean-up and the 17th Street levee construction project, at the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment hearing tomorrow.
April 1, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today alerted District of Columbia residents that anyone who tried to sign up for health insurance through D.C. Health Link but could not receive in-person or telephone assistance, or anyone who created an account on D.C. Health Link but did not complete it by yesterday’s (March 31) deadline, may still enroll in a health plan by April 15.
March 31, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement on the District of Columbia marijuana decriminalization bill signed into law today.
March 31, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Following today’s Supreme Court refusal to hear a case – Northover v. Archuleta – brought by a Department of Defense (DOD) commissary management specialist who challenged her removal from a non-secure, “sensitive” job, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) stressed the urgency for Congress to pass her bipartisan bill to overturn an unprecedented lower court decision that strips many federal employees of due process rights to independent review of an agency decision removing them from their job.