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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) tomorrow will join a bipartisan delegation of Members of Congress traveling to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 50^th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and Bloody Sunday, which occurred on March 7, 1965, when hundreds of civil rights activists of every background marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and were met w

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement in response to the U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today spoke at a press conference hosted by Unity Health Care at its Parkeside Health Center to help announce Unity's role in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) groundbreaking study treating patients for hepatitis C with a newly approved medication, Harvoni, at community sites.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys, said that today's Caucus roundtable on President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing report, released yesterday, has already yielded some ideas after testimony from Task Force co-chair and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles "Chuck" Ramsey.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that today's passage of a clean fiscal year 2015 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations bill ensures the additional $48.6 million needed for DHS to move into the Center building complex at the DHS campus at St. Elizabeths in Ward 8.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday introduced a bill to give the District of Columbia home-rule authority over the D.C. National Guard and strengthen the Guard itself. The bill, the District of Columbia National Guard Home Rule Act, would give the mayor of the District authority that governors have in their states over their Guards.