Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the President has signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, which contains a provision Norton sought requiring the armed services to display the District of Columbia flag and the flags of the territories whenever the flags of the 50 states are displayed.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she was neither surprised nor daunted by the House Republican majority's vote to deny her motion to restore the District of Columbia's first and only vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole. Norton first won this vote for D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) held a meeting last evening, Wednesday, January 2, 2012, on Capitol Hill, with the United States Secret Service and almost a dozen police and domestic agencies for an update on the planning in progress for the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, to be held Monday, January 21, 2013.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's (R-CA) decision to consider District of Columbia matters in the full committee, instead of the usual subcommittee, during the 113th Congress.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will take to the House floor tomorrow, Thursday, January 3, 2012, to demand that the House restore D.C.'s right to vote in the Committee of the Whole, the District's first and only vote on the House floor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that three important Norton bills that advance home rule in the District of Columbia have been signed into law by the President, the D.C. Hatch Act Reform Act, the Hatch Act National Capital Region Parity Act, and her D.C. Courts and Public Defender Service Act, giving D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on U.S. Attorney Ron Machen's decision to temporarily move outside the District of Columbia:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a press conference this morning, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she would seek the return of the District of Columbia Committee of the Whole vote in the 113th Congress that she first won in the 103rd.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the passing of Barbara Lett Simmons.
"Barbara Lett Simmons was a friend of mine and of many others here, but she was a friend of the city to which she gave so much passionate devotion. She had an instinct to serve and a focused determination to serve those who needed service most.