Press Releases
April 8, 2014
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.
April 8, 2014
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.
April 8, 2014
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.
April 7, 2014
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.
April 7, 2014
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.
April 7, 2014
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.
April 4, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Throughout next week, the last week Congress is in session before D.C. Emancipation Day, April 16, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer remarks on the House floor as a part of the fight for statehood for the nearly 650,000 residents of the District of Columbia. D.C.
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.