Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released this statement on the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the majority of the President's Affordable Care Act.
WASHINGTON D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today issued the following statement about the future of the D.C. War Memorial:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today joined D.C. government officials in requesting that the District of Columbia Local Budget Autonomy Act (S. 2345) be withdrawn from the markup in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee scheduled for Wednesday, because of an unusual number of anti-home-rule amendments filed by Republicans.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today celebrated House passage of her Southwest Waterfront redevelopment bill (H.R. 2297), which is now headed to the White House for President Obama to sign into law.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be tested for HIV today, Tuesday, June 26, 2012, between 10:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. at a mobile clinic located at the intersection of New Jersey Ave. and C St. SE. The mobile clinic will offer free and confidential HIV testing from 10:00 a.m.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today marked the 10th anniversary of Ilir Zherka's service as Executive Director of DC Vote by entering remarks in his honor into the Congressional Record recognizing his leadership in the fight to give the District of Columbia equal representation and rights in Congress.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced a victory further enhancing the equal treatment for the District of Columbia that the Congresswoman achieved in the 2008 farm bill, which made the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) eligible for millions of dollars in farm bill grants for the first time.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), chair of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, which oversees the U.S. Capitol grounds, for introducing a concurrent resolution to place D.C.'s Frederick Douglass statue in the Capitol.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton announced today that she will speak at the unveiling and dedication ceremony of a plaque dedicated to the nine victims of the June 22, 2009 Metro red line accident on Friday, June 22, 2012, near the crash site, at the Langley Bridge (New Hampshire Ave. near 1st St. and Oglepthorpe St.