Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Even though the Fiscal Year 2014 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill has not been released yet, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) was delighted that the bill summary shows that the Senate Appropriations Committee fully funds her top priorities, restoring funding the House version of the bill cut from the president's budget.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked the Senate Appropriations Committee for including language she requested in her letter earlier this month objecting to a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) proposal to reduce terrorist and disaster protection for the nation's capital. The Senate Appropriations Committee barred the changes FEMA had proposed, as Norton requested, in the Fiscal Year 2014 Homeland Security Appropriations bill report.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that today the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Democrats voted unanimously for Norton to become the Ranking Member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, and that she will continue her service as a senior member of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys, delivered remarks at the Caucus' inaugural event today, entitled "The Status of Black Males: Ensuring Our Boys Mature Into Strong Men."
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued the following statement today on the introduction of a bill by Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) that would make important technical changes to the District of Columbia's budget process.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today testified in support of her bill (H.R 620) designating a National Park Service (NPS) trail in Glover Archbold Park in the District of Columbia, from Canal Road to Van Ness Street, as the "Rachel Carson Nature Trail" at a meeting of the National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission. Norton brought two photographs of Carson on bird walks in the park to authenticate Carson's personal use of the park and trail.
WASHINGTON, DC –Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL) announced that Tracy Martin, the father of Trayvon Martin, will attend and give opening remarks at the inaugural event of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys, entitled "The Status of Black Males: Ensuring Our Boys Mature Into Strong Men," tomorrow, Wednesday, July 24, 2013, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., in Rayburn House Office Building 2237 (House Judiciary Committee Hearing Room). The newly formed Caucus is co-chaired by Norton and Davis.
WASHINGTON, DC – On Monday, July 22, 2013, from 10:00 a.m. to noon, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will a lead preview tour, exclusively for D.C. residents and the media, of the new U.S. Coast Guard headquarters on the St. Elizabeths West Campus in Ward 8 to introduce the new building to the D.C. community. The event will also be the media's first opportunity to not only see the lobby, where the ribbon-cutting the following week will take place, but to tour the building.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a resolution, H.RES.304, to mark Saturday, July 27th as the date for the 2013 National Dance Day, celebrated annually on the last Saturday of July. This year's celebration will take place on Saturday, July 27, 2013, from 1:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., at the Kennedy Center on North Plaza. National Dance Day celebrations began on the Mall in the District of Columbia and in Los Angeles, California four years ago.
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. Her greatest concerns with the bill approved by the Committee are the 50 percent cut – $15 million compared to the fiscal year 2013 enacted level of $30 million – in funding for the District of Columbia Tuition Assistance Grant program (DCTAG) and the rider that prohibits the District from spending its local funds on abortion services for low-income women.