Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Well over 100 District of Columbia students, parents and other residents attended Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) Service Academy College Fair and Sendoff on Tuesday evening, which, according Commander Kerwin Miller, USN SN (Ret) (USNA '75), the chairman of Norton's Service Academy Selection Board, was the largest crowd for the event since Norton has been a member of the House. More than half of the attendees were D.C. students in grades 6-11, most of whom came with parents.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton will shop with other members of Congress at the Safeway on 14th Street SE today from 11:00 a.m. to noon, for the SNAP Challenge. Norton will take the challenge between June 13 and 19, 2013, to call attention to the impact of any further 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. A House vote on the bill is expected later this month.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Representative Phil Gingrey (R-GA) filed an amendment in the House Rules Committee to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, which the House is expected to vote on this week, expressing the sense of the Congress that active duty military personnel in their private capacity should be exempt from the gun laws of the District of Columbia, but not those of any other state or locality. Gingrey earlier this year introduced the amendment as a stand-alone bill.
WASHINGTON, DC – As the Atlantic hurricane season begins, when many National Guards will be deployed throughout the country, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to give the District of Columbia home-rule authority over the D.C. National Guard and strengthen the Guard itself. The bill, the District of Columbia National Guard Home Rule Act, would give the mayor of the District authority, as governors have in their states, to deploy the D.C.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the farm bill (Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2013) passed by the Senate today includes her provision that would allow the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) to receive federal funding for forestry research under the McIntire-Stennis Act. Although UDC is the nation's only urban public land-grant university, until now, its college of agriculture has not been eligible for these funds. The eligibility of D.C.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) Service Academy College Fair and Sendoff this evening, June 10, 2013, from 6:30 – 9:00 p.m., in 2168 Rayburn House Office Building, will feature two brief keynote remarks – both from former D.C. public school students, one who graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and is currently serving in the Navy, and one who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and is currently a D.C. police officer.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will march in the 38th annual Capital Pride Parade with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, tomorrow, Saturday, June 8, 2103, beginning at 4:30 p.m. at 22nd and P Streets NW. The parade, which travels one and a half miles, from near Dupont Circle to Logan Circle, is expected to draw over 100,000 spectators.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton will hold her annual Service Academy College Fair and Sendoff and present her 2013 nominees to the service academies on Monday, June 10, 2013, from 6:30 – 9:00 p.m., in 2168 Rayburn House Office Building. The fair is an opportunity for prospective students in grades 6-11 and their parents to speak with service academy representatives and alumni as well as the D.C. students on their way to the academies.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement on the fire at Frager's Hardware store yesterday evening.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Curtis Hunter, on guitar and harmonica, will perform today, June 6, 2013, from noon – 1:00 p.m., for Lunchtime Music on the Mall, on Madison Dr. SW, between 4th St. and 7th St., directly across from the steps of the National Gallery of Art. Norton attended auditions on Tuesday, held by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), for Lunchtime Music on the Mall and the "MetroPerforms!" series, where Hunter was one of many performers to audition.