Norton’s ‘Save D.C. Home Rule’ Press Conference with National Organizations, Today

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold a "Save D.C. Home Rule" press conference today with national groups whose issues have been attacked in the past using the District of Columbia as a vehicle. The national organizations – American Civil Liberties Union, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and AIDS United – will discuss their intentions to use their nationwide networks, along with another 100 pro-D.C. home rule organizations, to contact members of the House and Senate appropriations committees to protect D.C.'s right to spend its local funds without congressional interference in the upcoming fiscal year 2015 D.C. appropriations bill.

Among the other groups that will be in attendance are Advocates for Youth, All Above All, Center for Reproductive Rights, Drug Policy Alliance, National Abortion Federation, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and Reproductive Health Technologies Project.

The focus of the press conference will be to alert members of the House and Senate that D.C. has allies to help prevent anti-local government amendments to D.C.'s laws on marijuana, gun safety, needle exchange, and reproductive rights

WHO: Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC);

Kimberly Perry, Executive Director, DC Vote;

Ezekiel Edwards, Director of the Criminal Law Reform Project, American Civil Liberties Union;

Leslie McGorman, Senior Policy Representative, NARAL Pro-Choice America;

Dana Singiser, Vice President for Public Policy & Government Affairs, Planned Parenthood Federation of America;

Jon Lowy, Legal Director, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence;

William McColl, Political Director, AIDS United

WHAT: Press Conference on D.C. Appropriations Riders

WHEN: Monday, May 19, 2014, 10:30 a.m.

WHERE: 2203 Rayburn House Office Building

Published: May 19, 2014