Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was relieved, even elated, that the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government's fiscal year 2015 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, approved today, meets the congresswoman's priorities, especially full funding for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant program (DCTAG), plus a $10 million increase from the fiscal year 2014 enacted level. DCTAG, the city's unique, federally funded college access program, was put in jeopardy when the D.C. Council passed the D.C.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Anthony Foxx, requesting that the Virginia Avenue Tunnel project's final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) review period be extended from 30 to at least 90 days and that a second community meeting be held so that her constituents have enough time to review the Final EIS before the Record of Decision is issued.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Randolph Moss's nomination to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia was approved today by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Moss's nomination was recommended to President Obama by Norton.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer brief remarks at the 25th anniversary of The Foundation For Ethnic Understanding, Thursday, June 19, 2014, from 4-6 p.m. at the Mansfield Room (S-207) of the United States Capitol. This event commemorates the date when three student civil rights activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were killed in Mississippi, one African American and two Jewish Americans.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a leader in the effort to cancel the Washington Football Team's trademark and to convince the team's owner and the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) to voluntarily change the team's name, today celebrated the ruling by the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board that the term "Redskins" is disparaging to Native Americans, thereby canceling federal registrations for the "Redskins" trademarks.