Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Funds Norton’s Top Environmental Priority

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After leaving the fiscal year 2013 Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government markup today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that she was very happy to learn that the subcommittee had provided $15 million for her top environmental priority, the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority's (DC Water) Clean Rivers Project to reduce combined sewer overflow and restore the Anacostia River, $3.5 million more than in the administration's request. "Other than for DC Water, the subcommittee has only published totals for categories, not line items, making it impossible to know more about other D.C. funding at this time, but the funds for DC Water were particularly gratifying because the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government didn't provide any of the funds requested by the President," Norton said. "I am grateful to Chairman Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-KS) for these urgently needed funds to continue restoring the Anacostia River."