Press Releases
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.
October 4, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a panel discussion on the growing movement to change the mascot name of the Washington Redskins, sponsored by the Oneida Indian Nation, on Monday, October 7, 2013, at 11:00 a.m., in the Fahrenheit Ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Georgetown (3100 South Street NW).
October 4, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – After a long contracting delay in the midst of construction, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the resumption of construction on the levee at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW has become increasingly urgent because of unprecedented storms in the east, such as Hurricane Sandy.