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Norton Introduces Resolution Commemorating D.C. Emancipation Day

April 15, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced her resolution commemorating D.C. Emancipation Day. D.C. Emancipation Day is an official holiday in D.C. honoring the date in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln freed 3,100 enslaved individuals in the District, nine months ahead of the Emancipation Proclamation.

On Anniversary of Start of Civil War, Norton Introduces Bill to Preserve D.C. Region Civil War Defenses

April 12, 2024

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — On the anniversary of the start of the Civil War — April 12, 1861 — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill to recognize and preserve the Civil War Defenses of Washington, located in the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland, by redesignating them as a national historic park.

Norton, Molinaro Bill to Remove Derogatory “R-Word” from D.C. Code Passes Senate Committee

April 10, 2024

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the Senate Committee on Homeland Security

Norton Introduces Bill to Prohibit Census Questions on Citizenship, Nationality, and Immigration Status

April 9, 2024

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WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill today that would prohibit questions on citizenship, nationality, and immigration status on the decennial census.

Norton Introduces Bill To Create Commemorative Coin To Honor Paul Laurence Dunbar

April 2, 2024

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced the Paul Laurence Dunbar Commemorative Coin Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to mint 50,000 five-dollar coins, 400,000 one-dollar coins and 750,000 half-dollar coins in recognition of Paul Laurence Dunba

Norton Introduces Bill To Address Complicit Bias In Schools

March 28, 2024

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today she plans introduce the Combating Implicit Bias in Education Act during Friday’s pro forma session. This bill would create a $30 million grant program for schools to train teachers, principals and other personnel on implicit bias.

Norton Mourns Loss of Senator Joe Lieberman, D.C. Champion

March 28, 2024

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Senator Joseph Lieberman, who, at age 82, passed away yesterday. Norton said that Lieberman was a tireless champion of D.C. statehood.

Norton Secures Victories in Final Fiscal Year 2024 D.C. Appropriations Bill

March 26, 2024

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton said the final fiscal year (FY) 2024 District of Columba Appropriations bill, which President Biden signed into law last week, includes many victories for D.C. The bill provides $40 million for the D.C.

Norton Statement on House Administration Committee Hearing on D.C. Crime

March 21, 2024

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today’s Committee on House Administration hearing purporting to be about crime in D.C., even though crime across almost all measures has declined significantly, demonstrates that the Republican fixation with meddling in local D.C. affairs is undemocratic, paternalistic, irresponsible and unreflective of reality.

Norton Introduces Bill to Clarify Due Process Rights for Federal Employees

March 19, 2024

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to clarify due process rights for federal employees serving in sensitive positions. Norton's bill would overturn an unprecedented federal court decision, Kaplan v. Conyers and MSPB, that stripped federal employees who do not work on classified matters of the right to independent review of an agency decision removing them from jobs on grounds of ineligibility, preventing at least 200,000 federal workers who are designated as "noncritical sensitive" from appealing. Norton says the Kaplan decision undercuts the Civil Service Act, which ensures due process rights for federal workers, as required by the U.S. Constitution.