Press Releases
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). This year's job fair is expected to feature over 100 employers with opportunities for federal, state, local and private-sector jobs. Norton's office will release more details on the day's activities and employers shortly.
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. (Norton had to manage two of her bills in committee hearings today and therefore was unable to attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Her remarks were delivered by her District Director, Raven Reeder)
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. Among the issues to be discussed are the increase of traffic with the closure of E St. near the White House and another issue added at Norton's request.
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 Legislative Branch today.
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, compared to the fiscal year 2013 enacted level of $30 million.
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. and 7th St., directly across from the steps of the National Gallery of Art. Lunchtime Music on the Mall, sponsored by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the D.C.
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. Norton wants to get the bill through the Congress in time for the August opening of the Coast Guard building in the District of Columbia's Ward 8.