Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) on Friday will travel for the weekend to the Mississippi Delta and Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Mississippi Freedom Summer, the effort to register and mobilize African American voters in Mississippi, which she helped organize in 1963 as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in preparation for the summer of 1964.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today made the following statement upon learning of downtown D.C. street closures by the U.S. Secret Service earlier this week.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement on the District of Columbia Council’s passage today of a marijuana decriminalization bill.

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget would grant the District of Columbia budget and legislative autonomy, and is the strongest and most comprehensive call for local D.C. autonomy in a President’s budget ever.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today spoke with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John Pistole following an incident in which D.C. resident Ashley Brandt was initially prevented from boarding an airplane because a TSA agent wrongfully believed that a District of Columbia-issued license was an invalid form of identification.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to require the Library of Congress to install the District of Columbia’s seal in the stained-glass windows of the Thomas Jefferson Building’s Main Reading Room, which contains the seals of all states and territories that existed when the building was constructed, except for the District seal.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote a letter to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) following an incident in which D.C. resident Ashley Brandt was initially prevented from boarding a flight because a TSA agent wrongfully believed that a District of Columbia-issued license was an invalid form of identification.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today released the following statement upon learning that D.C. resident Ashley Brandt was initially prevented from boarding a flight because a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent wrongfully believed that a District of Columbia driver’s license was an invalid form of identification.