Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that with support of members of Congress, eight workers were rehired just hours after being fired yesterday for demonstrating, speaking out, and attending a hearing against federal complicity in low wages paid to employees by federal contractors in federal buildings and facilities.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to House and Senate appropriators to inform them of her findings from recent meetings with Capitol Police, U.S. Park Police, and Federal Protective Service (FPS) officials regarding concerns that sequestration cuts to federal police could jeopardize public safety in the nation's capital in light of new risks raised by the Boston Marathon bombings.
WASHINGTON, DC – The House today passed a resolution (S.Con.Res.16) authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall next month, Wednesday, June 19, 2013, to unveil the District of Columbia's Frederick Douglass statue. The resolution, which passed the Senate last week, was approved in the House by a voice vote and does not need to be signed into law to take effect, marking the final step in the long-fought effort of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) to allow the District, like the states, to have its own statue in the Capitol.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will ask members of Congress to sign onto a letter to President Obama at a hearing today, held by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), at 3:00 p.m. in 340 Cannon House Office Building, on the low wages paid by federal government contractors that result in millions of workers who are barely able to support themselves and whose low wages undermine the nation's economic prosperity.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak on the House floor tomorrow, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during consideration of a resolution (S.Con.Res.16) authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, to unveil the District of Columbia's Frederick Douglass statue. The House will take up the resolution, passed last week by the Senate, tomorrow mid-to-late afternoon under suspension of the rules.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Homes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement regarding the announcement today by Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) that he would amend his D.C. abortion ban bill (H.R. 1797), scheduled to be marked up next Thursday by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, to apply nationwide.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Alexandra Adams, a junior at the Maret School, has won the District of Columbia Congressional Art Competition with her charcoal drawing, which will hang in the United States Capitol building for one year, along with the winning pieces chosen from other congressional districts nationwide. The first place winner also received a partial scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, and a $300 scholarship from the D.C. Congressional Art Competition.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) on Wednesday introduced the second anti-choice bill, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7/S. 946),within the last month that infringes on the local authority of the District of Columbia.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked her colleagues in the Senate for passing a resolution yesterday authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, to unveil the District of Columbia's Frederick Douglass statue, marking the first time that the District, like the states, will have its own statue in the Capitol. The resolution is expected on the House floor soon but does not need to be signed into law in order to take effect.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Shortly after Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wrote today to Representative Franks (R-AZ), chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, requesting to testify at the subcommittee's hearing next Thursday on Franks' bill (H.R. 1797) that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy in the District of Columbia (with limited exceptions), but in no other jurisdiction, Franks granted Norton that courtesy. Despite being denied the courtesy to testify on the D.C.