Skip to main content

Press Releases

May 4, 2010

Norton Gets Hearing on How to Get D.C. Inmates Closer to Home, Families and Services


April 28, 2010

Norton Responds to Constituents' Questions about New Extended Unemployment Benefits

April 28, 2010


April 28, 2010

Norton Bill to Honor Two Postal Service Employees Who Died in 2001 Anthrax Attack

April 28, 2010


April 27, 2010

Norton Poised to Fight Gun Bill Expected in Senate


April 27, 2010

Norton Gets D.C. National Guard for Height Ceremonies

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), upon learning that there was no appropriate honor guard for ceremonies honoring Dr. Dorothy Height, this afternoon called D.C. National Guard Commander, Major General Errol Schwartz, and secured an honor guard. Norton did the same for Rosa Parks, securing the D.C. National Guard as the honor guard when Parks was laid in honor in the Capitol Rotunda and for her funeral that followed.


April 26, 2010

Norton Calls for Immediate Injunctive Relief from Arizona Law and Immigration Reform


April 26, 2010

Norton Wants CBC to Weigh, Not Rush to Support a Supreme Court Nominee, Considering CBC Priorities this Year


April 21, 2010

Norton Calls for an Independent Metro Safety Commission


April 20, 2010

Norton Apologizes to Sen. Collins for Mistaken Report of Collins' Opposition to D.C. Voting Rights

WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Norton issued the following correction to a statement made earlier:


April 20, 2010

New Developments Force Delay on Voting Rights Bill, but Norton Already at Work on New Strategies

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, in light of new developments that are just emerging in both the House and Senate, has asked House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) to remove the D.C. voting rights bill from the floor schedule for now. Congresswoman Norton's statement follows: