Press Releases
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.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) bill 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 Botanic Gardens) was included in the fiscal year 2014 appropriations bill passed by the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on the Le
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that the 50 percent cut to the funding for the District of Columbia Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG) in the House's draft fiscal year 2014 Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill, "simply cannot and will not stand." The bill, which will be marked up tomorrow, provides $15 million for DCTAG
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that indie songwriter and vocalist Margot MacDonald, the current Washington Area Music Association "Artist of the Year," will perform at Lunchtime Music on the Mall tomorrow, Tuesday, July 9, 2013, from noon to 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, on Madison Dr. SW, between 4th St.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill today 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 Munroe, 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) yesterday led an inspection of the Library of Congress Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building, after being informed that the District of Columbia seal was not included among the state seals on the stained-glass windows in the iconic Main Reading Room. Norton was accompanied by Luis Landau, a D.C.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today expressed her personal sadness upon hearing of the passing of her friend former Representative William H. Gray III, the first African American Majority Whip of the House and first African American Chair of the House Budget Committee. Norton's statement follows.