Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) first recommendation, in 2010, to President Obama for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Robert Wilkins, today got one critical step forward to a promotion to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit Court). President Obama nominated him last year to be elevated from the district court to the D.C. Circuit Court, widely regarded as the second most powerful court in the United States.

WASHINGTON, DC – In an era when federal employees are often ignored, or worse, by Congress, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) this week requested a hearing on a federal employee bill that has bipartisan and bicameral support.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After being denied the courtesy to testify, the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the statement she would have given and that she has asked to be included in the record during today’s House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice hearing on H.R. 7, which would, among other things, permanently prohibit the District of Columbia from spending its local funds on abortion services for low-income women, and define the D.C. government as part of the federal government for the purposes of abortion.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to the denial of her request to testify, the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton will hold a press conference tomorrow in advance of tomorrow’s House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice’s hearing on a bill (H.R. 7) that would, among other things, permanently prohibit the District of Columbia from spending its local funds on abortion services for low-income women, and define the D.C. government as part of the federal government for the purposes of abortion.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Highways and Transit Subcommittee, will hold a community meeting on environmental issues associated with the Virginia Avenue Tunnel Project on Saturday, January 25, at 2:00 p.m., at a location to be determined, with the surrounding community near Capitol Hill, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the D.C. Department of Transportation (DDOT) and CSX.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of Columbia Paperwork Reduction Act to eliminate the congressional review period for legislation passed by the D.C. Council.

WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, on the first legislative day of the second session of the 113th Congress, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that President Obama renominated Christopher “Casey” Cooper and Tanya Chutkan to be judges on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, as recommended by the Congresswoman last year.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that House Republicans “could not get past the day after returning for the second session of the 113th Congress without attacking the right of the District of Columbia to self-government.”