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Cardiss Collins was the only African American woman in Congress when two other black women and I were elected in 1990. By the time she retired, after a quarter of a century representing a Chicago district, I understood why Cardiss had been able to hold the fort after the few African American women in the House had dwindled to only her. Cardiss Collins was a champion of women and African Americans everywhere, whose work was productive in areas of American life and is still being felt in our country.
Published: February 8, 2013
Washington D.C. -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and neighborhood IRS-certified tax preparers, who will prepare taxes free of charge for D.C. residents at Norton's annual Tax & Financial Services Fair, will hold a press conference at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 9, 2013. The annual Tax Fair will be from 10 a.m. – noon at the Washington Convention Center, and is open to D.C. residents only.
Washington, DC—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that Norton will host a Black History Month event for D.C. residents celebrating the upcoming move of the District of Columbia's Frederick Douglass statue to the U.S. Capitol, following the enactment of her bill to place the first-ever D.C. statue there, on Monday, February 4, 2013, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the lobby of One Judiciary Square (441 4th Street NW),where the statue is displayed. The speakers are D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray; D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak today at the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters at 2100 2nd Street SW, at 1:00 p.m. for the agency's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day program, part of her effort and that of the Coast Guard to transition the Coast Guard to its new home in Ward 8 later this year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who enforced laws for equal rights for women as the first female chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today, together with Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), introduced the Fair Pay Act of 2013 (FPA), to bring the Equal Pay Act (EPA) into the 21st century. |
Washington, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the Congresswoman will host her annual "ANCs on the Hill" meeting on Tuesday, January 29, 2013, from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. in Room 2253 Rayburn House Office Building. Norton and guest speakers will discuss federal legislation and initiatives that will uniquely affect D.C. in 2013, including the across-the-board federal spending cuts (sequester) scheduled to take effect March 1 and the joint federal-D.C. study on possible changes to the D.C. Height Act.