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November 3, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wrote National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell yesterday asking him to take action to ensure that vendors at NFL games can recognize District of Columbia driver’s licenses. A vendor at MetLife Stadium at a September game between the New York Giants and the Washington football team did not recognize a D.C. resident’s driver’s license, the new version of which lists “District of Columbia” rather than “Washington, D.C.,” and refused to sell alcohol to the resident.
October 31, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a community town hall entitled “Our Neighborhood Crown Jewels: National Park Service’s Urban Parks in D.C.” tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1, 2016, at 6:30 p.m., at the African America Civil War Museum (1925 Vermont Ave. NW).
October 26, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a roundtable to hear from local bicycle and pedestrian leaders and District of Columbia residents on how to use the new bicycle and pedestrian funds Norton got included in the surface transportation bill for the District tomorrow, Thursday, October 27, 2016, at 6:00 p.m., in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building.
October 25, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will join Mayor Muriel Bowser, Councilmember Brandon Todd (Ward 4), U.S. Army Assistant Secretary Katherine Hammack, and Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Brian Kenner for a ceremony recognizing the transfer of 67 acres of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) campus to the District of Columbia tomorrow, Wednesday, October 26, at 1:00 p.m., at the Walter Reed Campus (6900 Georgia Ave. NW).
October 22, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will attend a ceremony naming the Howard University School of Communications as the “Cathy Hughes School of Communications,” on Sunday, October 23, 2016, at 12:00 p.m., at the Howard University School of Communications (525 Bryant St. NW).
October 20, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee and one of the first to formally protest Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority General Manager Paul Wiedefeld’s proposal to permanently end Metro’s late-night weekend service, submitted her Aug 4, 2016 statement into the record at today’s Metro public hearing on the Wiedefeld proposal to cut late-night service.
October 20, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will make a special appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” tomorrow night, Friday, October 21, 2016. Norton will appear with actor Joy Bryant, who is playing Norton as a young lawyer in the upcoming TV series “Good Girls Revolt.”
October 19, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the second annual “Project Homeless Connect,” a one-day resource fair, today, Wednesday, October 19, 2016, at 11:00 a.m., at Central Union Mission (65 Massachusetts Ave, NW). The event, presented by United Way of the National Capital Area, will provide on-site medical and dental care and access to housing, employment and other vital services to residents who are experiencing homelessness.
October 18, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Councilmember Charles Allen (Ward 6) and three Ward 6 Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners will testify before federal officials at a roundtable hosted by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) on potential locations for a Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)-contracted halfway house for men in the District of Columbia tomorrow, Wednesday, October 19, 2016, at 6:00 p.m., at 1100 4th St. SW, Room E200.
October 17, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Local elected officials from the District of Columbia will testify to federal officials about the placement of Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)-contracted residential reentry centers in the District at a roundtable hosted by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) on Wednesday, October 19, 2016, at 6:00 p.m., at 1100 4th St. SW, Room E200.