Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today offered her take on the House Appropriations Committee markup yesterday of the Fiscal Year 2014 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill.
WASHINGTON, DC – The House Appropriations Committee, as part of the fiscal year 2014 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill it passed today, approved Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) provision to give the Capitol Police the permanent authority to issue permits for commercial filming and photography in Union Square (the area just below the west side of the Capitol, near the Bot
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL), co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys, will chair the Caucus' first event, entitled "The Status of Black Males: Ensuring Our Boys Mature Into Strong Men," on Wednesday, July 24, 2013, from 3:00 p.m.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who was one of the four people whose visit to the South African Embassy in 1984 led to serial protest arrests and sanctions on South Africa, will speak at a ceremony celebrating of the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela on his 95th birthday, tomorrow, Thursday, July 18, 2013, at 10:00 a.m., in U.S.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), whose district is what she called "the high-profile home of the federal government's collusion with those that pay low wages through leases and contracts with federal agencies," will speak at a Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and Change to Win press conference at 9:00 a.m.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a press conference and preview tour of the new U.S. Coast Guard headquarters on the St. Elizabeths West Campus on Monday, July 22, 2013, from 10:00 a.m. to noon, to introduce the new building to the D.C. community. Everyone is asked to arrive by 9:30 a.m.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Judicial Nominations Working Group, spoke at a CBC press conference today urging the Senate to move African American judicial nominees forward before the August recess.
WASHINGTON, DC – The House this evening passed Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) bill to name the new U.S. Coast Guard headquarters on the St. Elizabeths West Campus the "Douglas A. Munro Coast Guard Headquarters Building," for Signalman First Class Munro, the Coast Guard's only Medal of Honor recipient, who died heroically during a volunteer assignment in World War II.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus's Judicial Nominations Working Group, will speak at a CBC press conference tomorrow, Wednesday, July 17, 2013, at 11:00 a.m., to call attention to the pattern of Republican Senators holding up African American judicial nominees and the importance of diversity in the judicial branch.
WASHINGTON, DC – As many federal workers face furloughs and a third year of pay freezes, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the Federal Employee Short-Term Disability Insurance Act of 2013, to offer federal employees group short-term disability insurance, at no cost to the federal government.