Press Releases
November 8, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – To commemorate the District of Columbia’s veterans on Veterans Day, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will honor two of the original Tuskegee Airmen – D.C. residents William Fauntroy, Jr. and Major Louis Anderson – on Monday, November 11, 2013, at 11:00 a.m., at the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum (1925 Vermont Ave NW). She and Mayor Vincent Gray will lay a wreath at the African American Civil War Memorial, a National Park Service memorial commemorating the 200,000 African Americans who fought in the Civil War.
November 7, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), hailed the historic Senate passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) to ban sexual orientation or gender identity workplace discrimination.
November 7, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that after the House of Representatives returns from recess next week, the Congresswoman will introduce a bill to grant back pay to federally contracted retail, food, custodial and security service workers who were furloughed during last month’s federal government shutdown.
November 7, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she appreciated the quick final rule issued today by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) implementing her Hatch Act National Capital Region Parity Act by making D.C. a designated locality under the Hatch Act.
November 7, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, will test drive an electric car to learn more about new all-electric transportation technology, at the Long View Gallery, 1234 9th St. NW, today at 9:30 a.m.
November 6, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will commemorate Veterans Day on Monday by laying a wreath at the African American Civil War Memorial with Mayor Vincent Gray, followed by a commemoration across the street at the African American Civil War Museum.
November 6, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to the DC Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) requesting an investigation into ongoing labor practices involving three DC Water contractors and subcontractors, brought to her attention by D.C. ironworkers.
November 5, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked the State Department for providing a French translation for the Diversity Visa Program online instructions, following her letter last week to Secretary of State John Kerry requesting the translation.
November 5, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote a letter to the House and Senate committees on appropriations and on administration asking for an investigation into whether the new Capitol Police radio system will be interoperable with the appropriate federal and local law enforcement authorities and whether the system is the state-of-the-art system that post-9/11 conditions for safeguarding the Capitol require.
November 4, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), hailed today’s Senate vote for cloture, meeting the 60-vote threshold that permits debate, on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) to ban workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.