Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer four amendments on the House floor this week to the surface transportation bill, H.R. 7 (the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 2012). Norton opposes the very partisan underlying bill, which guts mass transit and highway investments, and undercuts Amtrak workers. However, she will offer amendments that focus on some of her transportation-related priorities, including mass transit tax benefits, construction training, and the closure of E Street near the White House.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the President's fiscal year 2013 budget, released today, "funds our top priorities in an especially difficult budget year," and that she was grateful that "the District of Columbia does remarkably well under the proposed budget."
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) bill to give the District of Columbia flexibility in scheduling special elections passed by a voice vote today in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Norton thanked Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) for his help in moving the bill through committee, and hopes for quick passage in the full House.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) tomorrow will speak to 90 District of Columbia public and public charter school students at Microsoft's Minority Student Day at 9:30 a.m. at the Microsoft Innovation Policy Center (901 K Street, NW). The focus of the event is the declining number of minority students entering the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.