Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today applauded Thursday's U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service ruling that legally married same-sex couples will be recognized for all federal tax programs, including income, gift and estate taxes. She said that the ruling will also bring a bonus to the District of Columbia because of same-sex couples who are likely to come here to be married from non-same-sex marriage states in even greater numbers, and will have their marriage festivities here.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote to Secret Service Director Julia Pierson requesting an immediate meeting following the organizational breakdown at yesterday's 50th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington on the National Mall. A security checkpoint backup at the general public entrance resulted in many marchers unable to enter the event and long lines in the heat and rain, with reported hospitalizations.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who, as a law student, was on the staff of the 1963 March on Washington, and as a college student attended the 1957 March, will be at Wednesday's 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Wednesday with "the same focus on remedies" she saw brought to the marches when she was a young woman in the civil rights movement. Both the 1963 and 1957 civil rights marches on Washington were instrumental in achieving important civil rights legislation at a time when race and racism were major issues in the country.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter to National Park Service (NPS) Director Jonathan Jarvis last week asking that NPS provide an alternative site near the Ellipse in President's Park where D.C. residents can hold recreational activities they had enjoyed until they were preempted without notice. NPS recently planted trees near the Ellipse, an area commonly used for recreational activities, without giving public notice.

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that when Congress returns from August recess, the Congresswoman will introduce a bill to overturn an unprecedented federal court decision that strips many federal employees of due process rights to independent review of an agency decision removing them from a job on national security grounds. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision, Kaplan v.

WASHINGTON, DC – Before the national March on Washington kicks off tomorrow morning, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), determined that this march will not ignore D.C., will speak at a D.C. statehood rally at 9:00 a.m. at the D.C. War Memorial.

WASHINGTON, DC – On Chuck Brown's birthday, the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that when Congress returns from August recess, Norton will introduce a resolution designating his birthday, August 22, as "Chuck Brown Day," in honor of the contributions of the "Godfather of Go-Go" to music in the United States and the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, DC - The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that over 2,500 District of Columbia residents came to Norton's Job Fair today, which featured more than 80 employers with federal, state, county, local and private-sector jobs, as well as information and insight into the job market for recent graduates at workshops that ran throughout the day.