Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to John Berry, Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), requesting that the agency issue regulations to implement the Congresswoman's recently enacted Hatch Act National Capital Region Parity Act. The bill, which was enacted as part of a larger Hatch Act reform bill, authorizes OPM to permit federal employees who live in the District of Columbia to run for partisan political office in local elections as independents.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that her website, https://norton.house.gov, has been updated with newly released information about President Barack Obama's second inauguration on January 21, 2013, including social media links, vehicle restriction details, mass transit schedules, and information about access points to the parade route. Visitors to the website should click on "2013 Inauguration Information" under "How Can I Help You?"

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that President Obama has re-nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to be a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The President first nominated Jackson for the position in the 112^th Congress, following Norton's recommendation, near the end of the 112^th Congress. Jackson is currently Vice Chair of the U.S.

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. in the 103^rd Congress, after submitting a legal memorandum arguing that the District had a vote in committees by rule of the House, and therefore, should have the same vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole, which is also established by House rules.

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 113^th 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. The draft rules for the 113^th Congress have now been published, and do not permit the District to vote in the Committee of the Whole, despite Norton's request in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).