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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The day after asking the Senate to give the District of Columbia statehood, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she regretted that she must go to the House Rules Committee tomorrow to try to retrieve a vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole, a vote she won shortly after being elected to Congress. House Republicans took that vote away when they regained the majority in the 112^th Congress. Yesterday, Norton testified at a Senate committee hearing on her bill to make D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that yesterday's historic Senate hearing on District of Columbia statehood will be remembered not only because it was the first official senate hearing on D.C. statehood; it will be remembered for reinvigorating the movement for statehood itself and for attracting the largest and most joyful turnout ever at a hearing on a D.C. issue.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) called on District of Columbia residents to observe a moment of silence today to remember the 12 employees killed last year on September 16 in the Washington Navy Yard shooting.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak today at a press conference for the Change the Mascot campaign in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing room, room 628 in the Senate Dirksen Office Building, around noon. Last year, Norton was one of the nine original cosponsors of H.R. 1278, the Non-Disparagement of Native American Persons or Peoples in Trademark Registration Act, which calls for the cancelation of existing trademark registrations containing the Washington football team name.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her written testimony for tomorrow's Senate District of Columbia statehood hearing at 3:00 p.m. in room 342 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. In her testimony, Norton thanked Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, for holding a hearing that she said is the "most important vehicle afforded by Congress…that the matter constitutes a serious national concern that should move to passage." She said that D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will give the keynote address at a graduation ceremony for the DC Advocacy Partners (DC AP) leadership training program at the University of the District of Columbia tomorrow, Saturday, September 13, at 1:00 p.m. Graduates from the program have been trained in advocacy communications for disability rights, so as to better engage with their local and federal representatives to influence policy that supports an inclusive environment and better services for those living with developmental disabilities.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said it will be a unique pleasure to see Judge Robert L. Wilkins formally sworn in as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today at4:30 p.m. at 333 Constitution Avenue NW. Wilkins was the first of Norton's recommendations to President Obama for a vacancy on the District Court for the District of Columbia. He is her first judicial recommendation to be promoted to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As another lead up to the District of Columbia statehood hearing in the Senate on Monday, September 15, the Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton has gotten special time to speak about District of Columbia statehood, and the reasons for the Monday Senate hearing, during the second special order hour around 2:00 p.m. today after the last House votes of the week. Yesterday, Norton announced that her D.C.