Press Releases
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.
March 31, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – With today’s deadline for D.C. residents to sign up for health insurance through DC Health Link, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) alerted residents that they can get free sign-up help from insurance brokers and DC Health Link today at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library (901 G St. NW), from 10:30 a.m. until 8:30 p.m., and that her office can provide further information, including on free brokers to sign up for health insurance.
March 31, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote a letter to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) requesting that the Virginia Avenue Tunnel project’s final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) be completed as soon as possible so that her constituents get answers as to whether or how the proposed project will proceed.
March 28, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy tomorrow, Saturday, March 29, 2014, at 10:00 a.m., at 3675 Ely Place SE.
March 28, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – This week, after returning from a four-day trip as a member of a congressional delegation conference with Members of Parliament to the United Kingdom for the 2014 British American Parliamentary Group Meeting, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) summarized several major issues discussed in the meetings.
March 28, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today applauded the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee report released yesterday criticizing the U.S. government’s human rights compliance record and again calling on the U.S. to grant equal congressional voting rights in the House and Senate to the residents of the District of Columbia.