Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – At a hearing today on a federal law that regulates the height of buildings throughout the District of Columbia, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) called on Mayor Vincent Gray and Council Chair Phil Mendelson to reach a consensus on whether there should be changes in building height limitations in the District, and if so, how they should be accomplished, rather than waiting for Congress to intervene in a home-rule decision.

WASHINGTON, DC – Following this weekend’s tragic murder of U.S. Postal Service (USPS) letter carrier Tyson Jerome Barnette in Landover, Maryland, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and a member of the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S Postal Service and the Census, wrote today to the U.S. Postmaster General regarding long-standing concerns about the risk of requiring postal employees to deliver mail after dark and requesting responses to several related questions within 30 days.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will begin Thanksgiving this week with events to honor military families and to help provide food, health care and clothing to D.C. families in need.

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission is accepting applications for an upcoming opening on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the DC Health Link Open Enrollment Day event tomorrow, Saturday, November 23, 2013, at 12:00 p.m., at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library (901 G St. NW). The event will enable District residents, small business owners and their employees to learn more about DC Health Link and to enroll in health insurance plans that meet their needs, with trained experts on site to assist with the enrollment process.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Prison Telecomm Reform Working Group, applauded the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) denial yesterday of petitions to delay the recent FCC order to lower exorbitant rates that prisoners and their families are charged for telephone calls. Two companies – Securus Technologies, Inc. and Global Tel*Link – filed petitions seeking to delay (stay) the order, the Inmate Calling Services Report and Order, which could ultimately have led to its overturn.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Judicial Nominations Working Group, today detailed the reasons why the CBC strongly supports Senate approval to require an up-or-down vote for all nominations other than for the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today’s community roundtable hearing, entitled “A Candid Conversation with the Community on Preventing Bullying,” led by the Commission on Black Men and Boys, in conjunction with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), will feature remarks from Norton and Mayor Vincent Gray, as well as testimony from D.C. students who have endured bullying and parents of D.C. students who are currently going through bullying, as well as experts. Audience participation will be taken after the witnesses testify.