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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:


March 2, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today released the following statement on two separate incidents that occurred outside the White House grounds last night and this morning:


February 27, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL), co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys, will host a roundtable discussion on policing in communities of color, entitled "Racial Profiling – What Next after Ferguson and New York City," on Tuesday, March 3, at 1:00 p.m. in 2167 Rayburn Hou


February 26, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will give the keynote address at a Black History Program hosted by the General Services Administration (GSA) Benjamin Banneker Chapter (BBC) of Blacks in Government (BIG) at the GSA Conference Center(1800 F Street NW, rooms 1459-1461) from 12:30 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.