Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Navy Seaman Jonathan Rucker, home on leave from Japan, and his mother, met with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today. They discussed how one family helped change federal law to recognize the District of Columbia's flag and D.C.'s servicemembers and veterans. CSSN Rucker, a D.C.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that U.S. Navy Seaman Jonathon Rucker, a D.C.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that Norton would introduce legislation when Congress returns from recess next week to subject the salaries of members of Congress to any future sequestration, or automatic, across-the-board spending cuts.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that D.C. residents will be among the first Americans to benefit if the Supreme Court rules that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called Ketanji Brown Jackson to congratulate her on her confirmation by the Senate to become a U.S. district court judge in the District of Columbia. Jackson, who is currently Vice Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, now becomes the first African American woman appointed to the district court in D.C.

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a rally at the Supreme Court promenade in defense of marriage equality on Tuesday, March 26, at 9:30 a.m. The first of two marriage equality cases to be heard this week, Hollingsworth v.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wrote today to all the colleges and universities with D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant program (DCTAG) students, and urged them to issue no late payment notices or penalties to DCTAG students due to congressional delay. "This delay is entirely attributable to the Congress, not the students," Norton wrote.