Press Releases
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.
November 2, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit and a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, made the following statement on the first Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent killed in the line of duty, Gerardo I. Hernandez.
November 1, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama yesterday signed a bill reauthorizing the U.S. Parole Commission (USPC) for five years, ensuring continuation of the agency with jurisdiction over D.C. Code felons on parole or supervised release.
October 31, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced Senate passage of a bill to reauthorize the U.S. Parole Commission (USPC) for five years, ensuring continuation of the agency with jurisdiction over D.C. Code felons on parole or under supervised release. Norton pressed for a minimum five-year reauthorization to provide greater certainty and consistency for the Commission to function rather than its prior two-year reauthorizations. The bill now goes to the President for his signature.
October 30, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday got language included in the FEMA Reauthorization Act of 2013 committee report to keep the Office of National Capital Region Coordination (ONCRC) in the National Capital Region, which includes the District of Columbia and several surrounding counties in Maryland and Virginia.
October 28, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry requesting that the online instructions for the Diversity Visa Program be translated into French immediately, considering that the submission deadline is this Saturday, November 2. Norton learned from constituents last Friday that program instructions on the State Department’s website are translated into 14 languages, but not French.
October 28, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – On national television yesterday, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that, according to reports, the District of Columbia is one of only four jurisdictions, along with three states, that had a successful launch of its health care exchange, DC Health Link, on October 1.
October 28, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – With less than 20 days of Congress scheduled to be in session before the end of the year, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will hold a Norton in Your Neighborhood with the Ward 5 Democrats at the Michigan Park Christian Church (1600 Taylor Street NE), from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. In the context of the end of the year and what comes next, Norton will brief residents on congressional issues affecting them, including the provision she won, in the bill signed to reopen the federal government, that allows D.C. to spend its local funds for the full fiscal year while the federal government must function on a three-month continuing resolution.