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April 7, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) received a response earlier this month to a letter she sent to the National Park Service (NPS) requesting a progress report on the status of the Rock Creek Park trail project and its Environmental Assessment (EA), as well as a timeline for next steps in the process.

April 7, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to pave the way for desperately needed investment and improvements at the three federally owned golf courses in the District of Columbia – Langston Golf Course, Rock Creek Golf Course and East Potomac Golf Course.

April 4, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC – Throughout next week, the last week Congress is in session before D.C. Emancipation Day, April 16, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer remarks on the House floor as a part of the fight for statehood for the nearly 650,000 residents of the District of Columbia. D.C.


April 4, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) spoke by phone with Randolph Moss yesterday to inform him that President Obama would nominate him to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, as recommended by the Congresswoman.

April 3, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement on D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray’s decision to decline to fund D.C. Promise, a new college access program, in his fiscal year 2015 budget, considering that the federal government already fully funds a unique college access program for D.C. residents, the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant (DCTAG) program.

April 3, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton announced that Norton’s bill to expand federal tax benefits for mass transit commuters, and to encourage commuters to use mass transit by equalizing tax benefits for mass transit and parking, was included in the tax extenders bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee today.

April 3, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the audit Norton requested of Union Station by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Office of Inspector General was released today.

April 2, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee, today got answers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) to her questions about a munitions site clean-up and placement of a groundwater testing well in the Spring Valley neighborhood in Northwest D.C., at a subcommittee hearing.

April 1, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), an original cosponsor of H.R. 863, the “Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Women's History Museum Act of 2013,” reiterated the importance of bringing a Women’s History Museum to the nation’s capital and said that she is excited and grateful that after years of effort, a bill to establish the museum is moving.

April 1, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that Norton, a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, intends to ask questions regarding pressing local D.C. issues, including the Spring Valley munitions site clean-up and the 17th Street levee construction project, at the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment hearing tomorrow.