Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote the Chair and Vice Chair of the Joint Committee on the Library and the Architect of the Capitol calling on them to take action to depict the seal of the District of Columbia on the stained-glass windows in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, where the seals of the states are depicted. Currently, the stained-glass windows contain the seals of all states and territories that existed when the building was constructed, except for the District of Columbia's.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a member of the Supreme Court bar and a tenured Georgetown University law professor, issued the following statement on today's Supreme Court ruling in Windsor v. United States, which struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutional.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued the following statement on today's Supreme Court Voting Rights Act ruling in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today issued the following statement extending her deepest condolences to the family of Angel Irene on his passing.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who was chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission when the seminal affirmative action college admissions decision of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke was handed down, issued the following statement on today's Supreme Court ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas, a similar case.
WASHINGTON, DC – Senior Legislative Day, hosted by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW), in conjunction with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), at the African American Civil War Museum (1925 Vermont Ave. NW), today, June 24, 2013, from 10:00 a.m.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, marking the four-year anniversary of the tragic June 22, 2009 Metro Red Line crash that killed Major General David F. Wherley, former Commanding General of the D.C. National Guard, his wife, Ann, and seven others, introduced the Major General David F. Wherley, Jr., District of Columbia National Guard Retention and College Access Act, to permanently authorize funding for a program that provides grants for higher education to members of the D.C. National Guard.
WASHINGTON, DC – As the House began debate on the farm bill today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) joined as a cosponsor of Representative James McGovern's (D-MA) amendment to restore the $20.5 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, in the House Republican's proposed farm bill. The amendment is expected to draw many members to the House floor, many of whom, like Norton, joined the SNAP Challenge – to eat on a food stamp budget of $31.50 for the week.
WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) for his forceful and unequivocal call for Congress to grant the District of Columbia statehood during his remarks at today's unveiling of D.C.'s Frederick Douglass statue in the U.S. Capitol. At the ceremony for D.C.'s first statue in the Capitol, which joins statues from the 50 states, Reid also announced that he had become a cosponsor, a rare act for a Majority Leader, yesterday of the Senate companion to Norton's D.C. statehood bill.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nettie Douglass, the great-great granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, spoke, along with Vice President Joe Biden, House and Senate leaders and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, Wednesday, June 19, 2013, at 11:00 a.m., in the Capitol's Emancipation Hall at the unveiling of the District of Columbia's Frederick Douglass statue. After a decade-plus fight by Norton, the District, for the first time, joins the 50 states with a statue in the Capitol.
Norton's remarks, as prepared for delivery, follow.