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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she was enormously grateful for the bipartisan District of Columbia budget autonomy bill introduced by Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME), the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (which has jurisdiction over the District), and Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that two of her bills to increase the city's home-rule authority will be marked up by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. in SD-342. The bills would remove the District from the federal Hatch Act, allow it to pass its own Hatch Act, and give the city flexibility to set its own dates for special elections.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on discussions regarding the Height Act.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will lead a Special Order on the House floor today at 3:30 p.m. to discuss new progress toward achieving budget autonomy for the District of Columbia. Earlier this week, Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) announced he was working on a budget autonomy bill, and a national poll was released showing that more than 7 in 10 Democrats and Republicans support budget autonomy for the District. In November 2011, Rep.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) stood at President Obama's side in the Rose Garden this month as he signed the "Jumpstart Our Businesses and Startups" Act, which will be featured in discussions at her "Small Business Access to Capital and Business Opportunities Fair" this Saturday, April 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW. The event is free of charge, open only to D.C. residents and D.C. small businesses, and seating is first-come, first-served. Advance registration is underway.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that D.C. Emancipation Day has brought encouraging new developments for budget autonomy for the District. She cited the announcement that Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (which has jurisdiction over the District), is at work on a bill to give the District budget autonomy, and a new national poll showing overwhelming, bipartisan support for budget autonomy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will honor the memory of the late John A. Payton in a Special Order tonight on the floor of the House of Representatives, shortly after 8 p.m. Payton was also remembered at a memorial service at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center this afternoon.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D–DC) marked the 150th anniversary of Emancipation Day in the District by marching in the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, after beginning the day with a speech at a prayer breakfast held at the Willard Hotel. Norton spoke about her great-grandfather, Richard Holmes, who was a runaway slave here on April 16, 1862 when President Lincoln signed the District Compensated Emancipation Act, but was not freed by the proclamation because he was not a slave of a District of Columbia slave owner.
Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton will mark the 150th anniversary of the District of Columbia Emancipation Day at two events. She will make remarks at a prayer breakfast Monday, April 16, 2012 at the Willard Hotel at 8:30am, and, at 11am, she will serve as one of the Grand Marshalls for the 150th Anniversary of the District of Columbia Emancipation Day Parade, marching down Pennsylvania Avenue from 3rd street to Freedom Plaza.