Press Releases
October 16, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, with a statement for the Congressional Record, announced her "Clean-up our History Day at Woodlawn Cemetery," which will take place on Saturday, October 19 at 10:00 a.m., at the cemetery (4661 Benning Road SE). All D.C. residents are invited and encouraged to join Norton, along with Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander, Lonnie G. Bunch, Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Major General Errol R. Schwartz, Commanding General of the D.C. National Guard, and Dr. Vincent Hill, University of the District of Columbia Mortuary Science Program Director.
October 15, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – As she continues to work on multiple fronts to prevent a District of Columbia government shutdown, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will offer an amendment and testify at the House Rules Committee on the House's continuing resolution (CR), which would reopen the federal government until December 15, 2013, to permit the D.C. government to spend its local funds and remain open for all of fiscal year 2014 (September 30, 2014). The committee meeting is scheduled to begin at 5:40 p.m.
October 11, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote letters to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) asking them to include in a possible continuing resolution (CR) to reopen the federal government language to give D.C. the authority to spend its local funds for all of fiscal year 2014, and not just until the expiration of the CR if it is shorter than a full fiscal year.
October 10, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – As the United States Supreme Court began its new term this week, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a resolution calling on Supreme Court Justices to make themselves subject to the same ethics guidelines as other federal judges.
October 9, 2013
ASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement today at a press conference with Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray, members of the D.C. Council, and District leaders to call on the Senate and the administration to free D.C.'s local budget during the federal government shutdown.
October 8, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – As hundreds of thousands of federal employees face furloughs and a third year of pay freezes, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to bring a measure of fairness back to federal workers by overturning an unprecedented federal court decision that strips many of them of due process rights to independent review of an agency decision removing them from a job on national security grounds.
October 7, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, at a panel forum sponsored by the Oneida Indian Nation, called on National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell to use his leadership role to reach out to the Oneida Indian Nation to try to find an amicable way to address the racially disparaging name of the Washington football team, Redskins. The time and place of the panel forum coincided with this week’s NFL Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C.
October 7, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, at a panel forum sponsored by the Oneida Indian Nation, called on National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell to use his leadership role to reach out to the Oneida Indian Nation to try to find an amicable way to address the racially disparaging name of the Washington football team, Redskins. The time and place of the panel forum coincided with this week's NFL Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C.
October 7, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will begin her Hispanic Heritage Month celebration by honoring Maria Gomez, President and CEO of Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care, and recipient of the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal, for her work on health care, education, and social services in the Hispanic community. The event, which will take place Tuesday, October 8, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:20 a.m., at the Carlos Rosario Educational Center (1100 Harvard St. NW), will help residents learn how to use the new D.C. health care exchange, D.C. Health Link.
October 5, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), an original co-sponsor of a bill to retroactively pay furloughed federal employees (H.R. 3223) that will be on the House floor today, said that the legislation is necessary to relieve beleaguered federal employees of losing even more pay following this year's sequester furloughs. Some federal employees deemed non-essential have been anxious that they may not receive back pay, because of ongoing Republican complaints about their pay and pensions.