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January 9, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today offered her thoughts on the announcement that her friend, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), will not be seeking reelection to the U.S. Senate.


January 9, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today telephoned Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) to applaud the city's good fortune with the announcement that the Senator will serve as ranking member on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, which has jurisdiction over D.C. appropriation.


January 8, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that as rank and file police prepare to come to the nation's capital on January 17, 2015 for a "Sea of Blue" march, the District will welcome them as we have others to assert their concerns.


January 8, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a letter to Peter May, National Park Service (NPS) Associate Regional Director for Lands, Planning, and Design for the National Capital Region, asking him to meet with her before taking any further action on approving the Francis Marion Memorial, and he has agreed.


January 8, 2015
Editorial

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that as rank and file police prepare to come to the nation's capital on January 17, 2015 for a "Sea of Blue" march, the District will welcome them as we have others to assert their concerns.


January 7, 2015
Blog

In their first vote of the 114th Congress, the majority used their first votes to eliminate the vote in the Committee of the Whole of the residents of your Nation's Capital. That vote on some, but certainly not all, matters had been approved by the federal courts. We have used this vote in three Congresses, but not when Republicans controlled.


January 6, 2015

When the House Republican majority offered the Rules for the 114th Congress this afternoon, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), in an attempt to restore to the Rules the District of Columbia's delegate vote in the Committee of the Whole, offered the required motion to refer the rules to a special committee regarding the delegate vote.


January 5, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will force the first substantive vote in the House in the 114th Congress on Tuesday, January 6, 2014, at approximately 1:45 p.m., on the District of Columbia's ability to vote in the Committee of the Whole on the House floor.


January 5, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released Norton's remarks for the press conference today at 10:30 a.m. in Cannon 421 calling on House Republicans to restore the District of Columbia's vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole in the 114th Congress.


January 4, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC – Before the 114th Congress convenes, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has begun the fight to restore an equal citizenship right District of Columbia residents won, but was taken away by House Republicans in the 112th Congress. In her first public appearance in the Congress, D.C.