Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – On the anniversary of the start of the War of 1812, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the National Patriots Memorial Act, to authorize the establishment of a memorial on federal land in the District of Columbia to honor the patriots of the War of 1812, including those who fought in the streets of the District, the patriots of the Revolutionary War, and America's international allies that also fought in support of U.S. freedom during those wars. No federal funds may be used for the memorial.
WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today applauded the Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, Adam Smith (D-WA), for including the District of Columbia, along with the 50 states, in an amendment he offered to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 to establish a Commission on Service to the Nation. The inclusion of the District in the amendment, which Smith introduced during his committee's markup of the bill, came without prompting from Norton.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she appreciated the Congressional leadership for inviting Vice President Joe Biden to speak at the unveiling ceremony of D.C.'s Frederick Douglass statue in the Capitol's Emancipation Hall on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. The ceremony marks the culmination of Norton's bill, which she fought for through repeated Congresses, to allow the District of Columbia, like the states, to have its own statue in the United States Capitol.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that Norton will host a special event for District of Columbia residents and officials to welcome D.C.'s Frederick Douglass statue to the United States Capitol. The official unveiling ceremony this Wednesday is an invitation-only event sponsored by House and Senate leadership, with limited capacity, but Norton is planning a counterpart to the sendoff she held for the Douglass statue last February at One Judiciary Square in the Capitol after the unveiling that will be open to all D.C. residents.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission is accepting applications for an upcoming opening on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Applications for the opening are due in 30 days, on Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Chief Justice John G. Roberts has appointed U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge John D. Bates as the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak today Friday, June 14, 2103, at 7:00 p.m., in Dupont Circle, at the 3rd annual community-organized DC Flag Day rally to show her support for the groundswell of District residents who are self-organizing and coming forward to use the D.C. flag as a powerful symbol for their insistence on statehood and voting rights.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (H.R. 1960) passed by the House today includes Representative Phil Gingrey's (R-GA) amendment that expresses the sense of Congress that active duty military personnel in their private capacity should be exempt from the gun safety laws of the District of Columbia, but not those of any other state or locality.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a press conference today, Friday, June 14, 2013, at 10:00 a.m., on the House Triangle, at the southeast corner of the Capitol building, to call attention to the impact of reductions in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, as it faces over $20 billion in cuts in the House Republican proposed farm bill reauthorization. At the press conference, Norton will join several other members of Congress, hunger advocates and members of the faith community.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak tomorrow, Friday, June 14, 2013, at the commencement ceremonies of both her D.C. elementary school and high school alma maters. She will deliver a keynote address at the Bruce-Monroe Elementary School fifth grade graduation at 9:20 a.m., at 3560 Warder St. NW, and at the Dunbar High School commencement in Howard University's Crampton Auditorium at 10:45 a.m.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote to National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Steve Whitesell asking NPS to further its efforts to preserve and enhance parks by banning smoking in all NPS units, including parks, sites and trails, in the District of Columbia. Norton cited United States Department of Interior Director Order #50D that provides superintendents with the authority to ban smoking in NPS units.