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July 14, 2014

Washington, DC -- The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the Obama Administration today called on the House to reject the D.C. marijuana and abortion riders in the Fiscal Year 2015 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, which the House will consider tonight, and grant D.C. budget and legislative autonomy.


July 14, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes vocalist and acoustic guitarist Hari Vasan as the seventh feature performer in the Lunchtime Music on the Mall series on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, from noon to 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, near the Smithsonian Metro Station, at 12th St. and Jefferson Dr. SW.


July 14, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) bill, H.R. 4185, to give the District of Columbia Courts, Public Defender Service (PDS) and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) authority that will modernize their operations passed in the House today by voice vote.


July 14, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) bill that requires reporting and data collection on sexual assaults on passenger airlines received broad bipartisan support last week from top members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.


July 11, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will attend the investiture ceremony for Judge Christopher "Casey" Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Cooper's nomination was recommended to President Obama by Norton, and he was confirmed by the Senate in March.


July 10, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today made the following statement on the passing of Henry Minton Francis, Sr., a fifth-generation Washingtonian who was a graduate of Dunbar High School and the 8th African-American graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, on July 7, 2014 at the age of 93.


July 10, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a letter Norton sent today to the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the U.S. House of Representatives regarding contract workers, many of them D.C.


July 10, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released today a letter sent to officials at the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation (USRC) urging them develop a new plan to address traffic congestion in front of Union Station.


July 9, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Prison Telecomm Reform Working Group, spoke today before a follow-up panel led by Commissioner Mignon Clyburn at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the FCC's new Inmate Calling Services (ICS) reform.