Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will introduce Ketanji Brown Jackson at her confirmation hearing to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. in Dirksen Senate Office Building (Room 226). Norton, using senatorial courtesy granted to her by President Obama, recommended Jackson to the President for this position, and he accepted the Congresswoman's recommendation. Jackson is currently vice chair of the U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced the House will vote on a bill (H.R. 6364) tomorrow that Norton co-sponsored to preserve the District of Columbia War Memorial for D.C. veterans only, re-designate the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri as the "National World War I Museum and Memorial," and establish a site on federal land in D.C. for a national World War I memorial. Norton, in a series of negotiations, was able to maintain the D.C. War Memorial for D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) is pursuing additional tickets for District residents to attend the 2013 inauguration of President Barack Obama, beyond the less than 200 allocated to each member of Congress. So far, Norton's office has received well over 2,500 requests for inauguration tickets. The Congresswoman has sent a letter to her colleagues in the House and Senate, asking them to donate some of their allotted tickets to her office for residents of the city hosting the inauguration.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) called Harry Hopper, the Chairman of the Board of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, to thank him for the decision announced today to keep the Corcoran in the District of Columbia. She has released the following statement on the board's decision.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter on Friday to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee Chairman Richard Durbin (D-IL) asking that a possible fiscal year 2013 omnibus appropriations bill include a provision that would prevent the District of Columbia government from shutting down if the federal government shuts down.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the letter she and the other delegates sent to the House and Senate Armed Services committee chairs and ranking members, calling on them to include in the final fiscal year 2013 Defense Authorization bill a House-passed provision that would require the armed services to display the D.C. flag and the flags of the territories any time the flags of the 50 states are displayed, as negotiations begin on the final bill.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at her office's "Government to Go" program at Emmanus Services for the Aging at 1426 9th Street NW on Friday, December 7, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. Norton's "Government to Go" program brings her constituent services staff into neighborhoods in every ward to offer District residents assistance and advice on a range of federal benefits and issues, from Social Security and veterans' benefits, to Norton's D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant program.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked the D.C. Council for passing a law banning synthetic marijuana, or K2, on Tuesday, the same day she visited a protest in front of an Exxon station near Springarn High School in Northeast, and got an agreement from the gas station's manager to stop selling the drug. Norton said that the Council's passage of the K2 ban removes any doubt – or excuse – about selling the drug.
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that 60 D.C. small businesses have won subcontracts for work on federal construction projects around the city, including some that have contracts on multiple projects. She said D.C. small businesses are clearly benefitting from the significant federal construction underway in the District. However, Norton, who collects and reports monthly the number of D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was pleased that the Senate today passed a fiscal year 2013 Defense Authorization bill without the non-binding provision included in the House-passed version that expressed the sense of the Congress that active duty members of the military, in their private capacities, should be exempt from the District of Columbia's gun laws. Norton also said that she hopes she will still be able to get a provision into the final bill that would require the armed services to display the D.C.