Press Releases
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.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys, issued the following statement on the jury verdict in State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman, where Zimmerman was found not guilty of the tragic murder of Trayvon Martin.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold her 16th annual Job Fair on Wednesday, August 21, 2013, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., featuring workshops from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and the job fair from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Washington Convention Center (800 Mount Vernon Place NW – between 7th and 9th Streets NW).
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that the Congresswoman will run to become Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure if the position is vacated by Representative Pete DeFazio (D-OR).
WASHINGTON, DC – Many of the reforms Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has championed were part of the Public Buildings Savings and Reform Act of 2013 (H.R. 2612), which Norton cosponsored and was passed today by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on today's ribbon cutting for the new Youth ChalleNGe Academy, which will be the site for the G.E.D. alternative Capital Guardian Youth ChalleNGe program, a partnership between the District of Columbia, the D.C. National Guard and the federal government.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, July 10, 2013, at 11:00 a.m., at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) headquarters (445 12th St. SW), will deliver remarks at a workshop on inmate calling services hosted by the FCC.
WASHINGTON, DC – A public meeting tonight, July 9, 2013, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library (901 G St. NW), entitled "Open House on the President's Park South Project," will feature two issues that Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has been pressing hard to resolve.