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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter yesterday to Secretary of State Antony Blinken following up on a letter she sent on June 8, 2022, about District of Columbia resident Emad Shargi, an American citizen who has been unjustly and inhumanely detained in Iran since 2018.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her remarks from today’s Black History Month event where she was named honorary fire chief in honor of her grandfather, Richard Holmes, who was one of the first African Americans to serve in the D.C. Fire Department.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her recommendation to President Biden, Ana Reyes, was confirmed by the Senate for the U.S. District Court for D.C. Once sworn in, Reyes will be the first Hispanic woman and first openly LGBTQ person ever to serve on that court. Norton's first two recommendations to Biden for the same court, Jia Cobb and Florence Pan, were confirmed by the Senate and are serving on the bench.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her remarks as prepared for delivery from her speech on the House floor yesterday opposing the disapproval resolution to overturn the local D.C. legislation allowing noncitizens to vote in local D.C. elections.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her remarks as prepared for delivery from her speech on the House floor this morning opposing the disapproval resolution that would overturn D.C.’s revised criminal code.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that she will work with her colleagues to ensure the disapproval resolutions of two pieces of local D.C. legislation that passed the House today do not pass the Senate. One disapproval resolution would overturn the local D.C. legislation allowing noncitizens to vote in local D.C. elections and the other would overturn D.C.’s revised criminal code. The Biden Administration has released a Statement of Administration Policy opposing the resolutions.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) announced today, during the second week of Black History Month, that reintroduced their bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 African Americans who fought to preserve the Union during the Civil War.