Press Releases
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. Norton, a member of the Supreme Court bar and tenured Georgetown University law professor, said that she is encouraged that the gay plaintiff may prevail in the DOMA case because the federal government has always deferred to state marriages in the past.
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. in 32 years, and only the second to ever serve. Norton recommended her to President Obama.
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. Perry, a challenge to California's Proposition 8 ballot initiative that defines marriage as between a man and a woman, will be heard on Tuesday. The Court will hear United States 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. "However, there can be no doubt that funds owed by the federal government will be forthcoming.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to all Senators urging them to vote against an amendment Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) filed today to the Senate's budget resolution (S.Con.Res. 8) that expresses the Sense of the Senate that Congress should pass legislation banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy in only one jurisdiction, the District of Columbia.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus' immigration reform task force, issued a statement in solidarity with and in support of comprehensive immigration reform that includes Black immigrants, who came to the Capitol today to make sure that they were included in any pending immigration bill.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2A (serving the Foggy Bottom and the West End neighborhoods), in conjunction with Norton, will host a "Norton In Your Neighborhood" community conversation today, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, from 6:30 – 9:00 p.m., at the West End Library (1101 24th St. NW). Norton will discuss the impact of sequestration on D.C., the Height Act, construction jobs in the city, D.C. equality legislation that has been enacted, and the 20-week D.C.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL) today announced the creation and first official member meeting of the Black Men and Boys Congressional Caucus. Norton established her own D.C. Commission on Black Men and Boys in 2001, which interested other members of Congress with similar interests and concerns.
WASHINGTON, DC – With the third anniversary of the enactment of federal health care reform law on Saturday, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of Columbia Medicaid Reimbursement Act, to relieve the District of a portion of Medicaid costs it has uniquely borne for years. The bill is particularly important for the District today in light of the new health care reform law, which, among other things, expands Medicaid eligibility to reduce the number of uninsured Americans. Medicaid is financed mostly by the federal government and the states.