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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that four senators today introduced the companion to her bill to grant the District of Columbia statehood. The New Columbia Admission Act was introduced by Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE), the expected new chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has jurisdiction over the District, along with three cosponsors, Senators Richard Durbin (D-IL), Patty Murray (D-WA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of Columbia Equal Representation Act and the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act, two bills that provide different approaches to congressional representation for the more than 600,000 residents of the District of Columbia. Residents have supported both bills as part of their ultimate pursuit of statehood. Norton's first bill of the 113th Congress was the New Columbia Admission Act, to make the District of Columbia the 51st state.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold a Norton in Your Neighborhood Community Conversation with members of the AARP-DC Penn-Branch Chapter on breaking issues in Congress at noon on Monday, January 28, 2013, at the Pennsylvania Ave Baptist Church, 3000 Penn. Ave. SE. Norton will discuss and hear from residents on entitlement reform, federal spending cuts, the Frederick Douglass statue soon to come to the Capitol, and new interest in the Height Act in the Congress.
Published: January 23, 2012
Washington, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Representative Phil Gingrey (R-GA) yesterday reintroduced a resolution (H. RES. 40) expressing the sense of the House that active duty military personnel should be exempt from the gun laws of the District of Columbia, but not those of any other state or locality.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to President Obama requesting $40 million to cover the city's emergency construction of storm water storage tanks at the McMillan Reservoir, in addition to a $15 million installment to partially fund the District's Clean Rivers Project. The extra $40 million is to alleviate the flooding that has plagued the Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park neighborhoods in the District.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of Columbia Budget Autonomy Act of 2013, which would allow the District's local taxpayer-raised budget to take effect immediately after city approval, without requiring congressional approval.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will reintroduce her bill requiring the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) to comply with federal contracting regulations, which will now include a requirement that MWAA comply with federal anti-nepotism laws, when Congress returns next week. Norton's announcement comes on the heels of another report of no-bid contracts and an unusual number of family members working at the agency.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on the White House decision to put the District of Columbia "taxation without representation" license plates on all presidential limousines beginning this weekend.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be the guest on NBC 4's "Viewpoint" this Sunday, January 13, 2013, at 7:00 a.m.