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March 4, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement in response to the U.S.


March 4, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today spoke at a press conference hosted by Unity Health Care at its Parkeside Health Center to help announce Unity's role in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) groundbreaking study treating patients for hepatitis C with a newly approved medication, Harvoni, at community sites.


March 4, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) at a House Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation hearing yesterday asked Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta whether the FAA would participate in a community meeting this spring for D.C. residents, many of whom reside in the Palisades, Foxhall, and Georgetown neighborhoods in Ward 3, to discuss noise issues created by new flight paths designed to implement FAA's NextGen program in the D.C. area.

March 4, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote U.S. Capitol Police Board Chair Frank Larkin requesting a waiver of the sledding ban on Capitol Grounds effective from March 5-8 in anticipation of a snowstorm expected to drop a significant amount of snow in the District of Columbia.

March 3, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys, said that today's Caucus roundtable on President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing report, released yesterday, has already yielded some ideas after testimony from Task Force co-chair and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles "Chuck" Ramsey.


March 3, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that today's passage of a clean fiscal year 2015 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations bill ensures the additional $48.6 million needed for DHS to move into the Center building complex at the DHS campus at St. Elizabeths in Ward 8.


March 3, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday introduced a bill to give the District of Columbia home-rule authority over the D.C. National Guard and strengthen the Guard itself. The bill, the District of Columbia National Guard Home Rule Act, would give the mayor of the District authority that governors have in their states over their Guards.


March 3, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that she will fight a sweeping national anti-choice Senate Republican bill that picks out the District of Columbia's women for harsh treatment, even beyond the other women of the country, who are also targets of the bill.


March 2, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on Senator Barbara Mikulski's (D-MD) announcement that she will not be seeking reelection to the U.S. Senate: