Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today made the following statement on the sale of the Washington Post to Jeffrey Bezos, after four generations of ownership by the Graham family.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will deliver remarks at the D.C. Council bill signings for the JaParker Deoni Jones Birth Certificate Equality Amendment Act and the Marriage Officiant Amendment Act, in honor of JaParker Deoni Jones, a D.C. resident who was murdered earlier this year because she was transgender. The ceremony will begin at 2:00 p.m. in room 509 of the John A. Wilson Building (1350 Pennsylvania Ave, NW).
WASHINGTON, DC – In her first neighborhood event since Congress left for August recess, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will hold a Norton in Your Neighborhood with the Brightwood Park Citizens Association at the Emery Recreation Center (5701 Georgia Avenue NW), from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today made the following statement on the passing of James Bunn, a D.C. civic and business leader.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the newly elected Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, which has jurisdiction over the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and other public transit, today wrote a letter to Shavonnte Taylor, who gave birth in the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station on Thursday morning. The baby, who was delivered with the help of a Metro passenger, Autumn Manka, a licensed emergency medical technician, arrived more than two weeks before his August 17 due date.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today spoke by phone with Christopher "Casey" Cooper, a longtime D.C. resident, in London, informing him that President Obama would nominate him to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, as recommended by the Congresswoman. Cooper is currently a partner at the law firm Covington & Burling LLP.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday sent a letter to National Park Service (NPS) Director Jonathan Jarvis concerning the recent vandalism at the Lincoln Memorial and at other monuments and buildings around the District of Columbia. Norton, in her letter, asked for an answer within 30 days to specific questions about Park Police staffing, resources and coordination with other federal police forces, and the effects of the sequester, and raised concerns about the ability of federal police forces to protect the city's monuments and properties.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will hold a Norton in Your Neighborhood for seniors at the Renaissance Adult Day Health Care Center at 5214 Foote St. NE, from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Norton will brief seniors on current congressional issues affecting them, including proposed Republican changes to Medicare and Medicaid, and the proposed changes to cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security and other programs (Chained CPI).
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of Columbia Incentives for Business and Individual Investment Act to reauthorize the federal tax incentives for investment in economically distressed areas in the District of Columbia, commonly known as the D.C. empowerment zone, and the $5,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit in D.C., both of which expired at the end of 2011. The D.C.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Senate yesterday 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. The House passed the bill earlier this month, and it is expected to be signed into law by the President as Coast Guard employees move to the building beginning in August.