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July 26, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) had a very rare opportunity to speak to a national audience about statehood for the District of Columbia at this year’s Netroots Nation in Philadelphia.
July 26, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that President Trump yesterday signed into law Norton’s Fairness for Breastfeeding Mothers Act, which requires buildings that are either federally owned or leased to provide designated private, hygienic lactation spaces for nursing mothers visiting such buildings.
July 26, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of Columbia Bridges Home Rule Act, which would repeal a redundant 1997 federal law that makes it a crime for a person in D.C. to obstruct any bridge connecting D.C. and Virginia.
July 25, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Donald S. Beyer (D-VA) announced today that they have introduced the Allowing Body Cameras in Joint Task Forces Act of 2019, which would prohibit the federal government from refusing to work with local police departments that require their officers to wear body cameras.
July 25, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she looks forward to tonight’s meeting at 6:00 p.m. with the National Park Service (NPS), which will be the first in an ongoing series of regular meetings between District of Columbia residents and NPS.
July 23, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today she will introduce a bill to require the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) headquarters to be located in the National Capital Region (NCR).
July 22, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak this evening to the National Youth Involvement Board Conference (NYIB), an organization of credit unions dedicated to reaching young people and educating them on their financial futures.
July 22, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a major campaign update for the 11th Street Bridge project this Tuesday, July 23rd at 9:30 a.m.
July 19, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the passing of Sterling Tucker.
July 19, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jessie K. Liu, with questions regarding the prosecution of hate crimes against LGBTQ individuals in the District.