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December 13, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her public weekend schedule today, which includes a holiday party celebration for children of incarcerated parents, the D.C. Statehood Champions Holiday Celebration, and the birthday celebration of Carter G. Woodson, hosted by the Association for the Study of African American Life and Heritage in partnership with the National Park Service and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
December 11, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the Newseum’s final program of the 2019 season this evening at 7:00 p.m.
December 10, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak on the house floor today at 3:15 p.m. on her bill to amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA) to include the District of Columbia in the definition of a coastal state, which would make D.C. eligible for federal coastal zone management funding.
December 10, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Chair of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, announced today that the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conference report would prohibit federal funds from being used by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) to purchase railcars and buses from state-owned corporations.
December 10, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will testify before the House Agriculture Committee tomorrow, December 11th, at 10:00 a.m. on her bill to make the District of Columbia eligible for urban forestry funding.
December 10, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her bill to amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA) to include the District of Columbia in the definition of a coastal state, which would make D.C. eligible for federal coastal zone management funding, passed the House today.
December 9, 2019
WASHINGTON D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter today to 18 Republican Members of Congress cosponsoring the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act (H.R. 4901), requesting they also consider cosponsoring her D.C. statehood bill (H.R. 51). Norton, a cosponsor of H.R.
December 9, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced she has introduced a bill to establish a grant program from existing Department of Justice funds to create local Task Forces on 21st Century Policing.
December 6, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who strongly supported House passage of the Voting Rights Advancement Act (H.R. 4), said the bill’s passage today reinforces her own District of Columbia statehood bill (H.R. 51), which gives D.C. residents equal voting rights in Congress.
December 5, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr requesting answers on implementation of the First Step Act, saying it is vitally important that the Act’s benefits be applied to D.C. Code felons, as Congress intended, to ensure equality for these inmates.