Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, during a week of remembrance of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting on December 14, 2012, almost a year ago, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a vigil in remembrance of the tragic shooting and for all victims of gun violence throughout the country, including the more than 30,000 lives lost each year to gun violence, at 3:45 p.m., at the Washington National Cathedral (3101 Wisconsin Ave NW).

WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, profoundly disappointed that 1.3 million Americans are slated to lose unemployment insurance after December 28, 2013, took separate actions today aimed at keeping Congress from “putting the long-term unemployed on the backburner.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Highways and Transit Subcommittee, today introduced a bill to extend federal tax benefits for mass transit commutes, and to encourage commuters to use mass transit by equalizing tax benefits for mass transit and parking.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the reintroduction of the National Rifle Association (NRA)-backed bill (H.R. 3689) to wipe out D.C.’s gun laws, sponsored by Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), this week, as the nation remembers the tragic Newtown shooting on its one-year anniversary, was an act of “insensitive disrespect.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will travel to South Africa as a member of the Congressional Delegation to the Nelson Mandela funeral, leaving the Rayburn Horseshoe at 4:30 a.m. Monday morning. The delegation will return on Wednesday evening December 10.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Homes Norton, who was a leader in the Free South African movement before being elected to Congress, was in South African on the day that Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and met him when he became president of his country, today released the following statement upon learning of his death.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today wrote Representative Tom Petri (R-WI), Chairman or the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, requesting a subcommittee hearing on the CSX Virginia Avenue Tunnel Project.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday sent a letter to District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson requesting that they engage with other city leaders in discussions in order to reach a consensus on whether there should be changes in building height limitations in the District, and if so, how such changes should be accomplished, in light of active interest in Congress in updating the Height Act.