Press Releases
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.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who has long fought the National Rifle Association's (NRA) attempts to override D.C.'s gun safety laws in Congress, will be among the speakers at the March on Washington for Gun Controlon Saturday, January 26, 2013, at 10:45 a.m.The march will beginat the Capitol Reflecting Pool on3rd Street NW, and endat the Washington Monument.
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.