Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer an amendment to the fiscal year 2014 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill, which is on the House floor now, that would prevent the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from enforcing its rule that prohibits commercial and most other helicopter operations in the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that after years of controversy and repeated requests, the National Park Service (NPS) has responded to community concerns regarding financial reporting by the Washington Tennis & Education Foundation (WTEF). Norton and Ward 4 residents have repeatedly raised concerns about a major commercial tennis tournament held by Lagardère Unlimited on NPS land in Rock Creek Park, in part, in return for youth, senior and special population programs provided by WTEF.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will speak at the ribbon-cutting of the new U.S. Coast Guard headquarters on the St. Elizabeths campus (the first of several buildings planned for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies on the campus), after securing $1.4 billion in funding and guiding congressional oversight of construction of the headquarters. Norton led a preview tour for D.C. officials and Ward 8 and other D.C. residents last week of the Coast Guard headquarters, the first federal agency to locate east of the Anacostia River. The St.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, D.C.'s National Dance Day celebration, in collaboration with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who will speak at the event, will go late into the evening and will feature interactive lessons, and performances by amateur and professional dancers, including D.C. natives, the Manzari Brothers. National Dance Day begins today, Saturday, July 27, 2013, at 1:00 p.m.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she is grateful that the Senate Appropriations Committee restored funding for her top District of Columbia priorities that the House Appropriations Committee had cut from the president's budget. Norton is also pleased that the bill, which was passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday, does not include any prohibitions on D.C.'s use of its local funds.

WASHINGTON, DC – In a historic step forward, the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday passed a bill to give the District of Columbia budget autonomy. The bill, the Fiscal Year 2014 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, reinforces the legislative provision granting D.C. budget autonomy that President Obama included in his fiscal year 2014 budget, at Norton's request.

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.