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February 12, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak on a D.C. statehood panel sponsored by the D.C. Bar Association this Thursday, February 13th, at 12:00 p.m, two days after her D.C. statehood bill was voted out of Committee.

February 12, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will read to first graders at Eagle Academy Public Charter School this Thursday, February 13th, at 10:00 a.m.

February 12, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked House Rules Committee Chairman James P. McGovern (D-MA) today for defeating an amendment that attacks the District of Columbia’s local labor laws.

February 12, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at Right Proper Brewery’s Trivia Night this Thursday, February 13th, at 7:00 p.m.

February 11, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that President Trump’s fiscal year 2021 District of Columbia budget proposal, released yesterday, violates the District’s right to self-government, but that it has no chance of passing without significant changes.

February 11, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state was passed today in the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, moving her statehood bill to the House floor for expected final passage.

February 11, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her testimony before today’s National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission hearing on Norton’s bill, the Women Who Worked on the Home Front World War II Memorial Act, which would commemorate the efforts of the 18 million American women who kept the home front running during World War II.

February 10, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her remarks from the Wilson Building today, which call attention to the $6.5 billion that the District sends to the federal government.

February 10, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD), and House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) will hold a short press conference on Tuesday, February 11, at 9:30 a.m. in Rayburn 2247 before the House Oversight Committee markup and vote on Norton’s D.C. statehood bill.

February 7, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) at a press conference today made D.C. veterans the first to be heard in advance of Tuesday’s House Oversight and Reform Committee mark up and vote on Norton’s D.C. statehood bill.