Press Releases
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 Botanic Gardens). The Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee passed the bill last week.
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. to 5:00 p.m., in 2237 Rayburn House Office Building. The event will feature three prominent black men – former Congressman and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume, author and Georgetown University professor Dr.
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. Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall. Norton will read from a farewell address given by Mandela in 1998.
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. tomorrow, Thursday, July 18, 2013, at Columbus Circle, in front Union Station. The press conference will call attention to the struggle of low-wage workers employed by federal government contractors.
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. The press conference was called because nearly one-third (10/33) of the judicial nominees pending in the Senate are African Americans. The Judicial Nominations Working Group reflects the high priority the CBC places on a diverse judiciary.
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. Norton will join CBC Chair Marcia Fudge (D-IL), Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL), a member of the CBC Judicial Nominations Working Group, and two Florida members – Reps.
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. If federal employees purchase the insurance and become injured or ill because of a non-work-related injury or illness, the disability insurance benefits would replace a portion of their lost income for up to one year.
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. Norton's office also noted that the case is likely to figure into the first hearing of the recently established Caucus on Black Men and Boys, on Wednesday, July 24th, 2013, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.