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June 13, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced she has filed two amendments to the fiscal year 2020 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations bill to prohibit the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) from using its fiscal year 2020 funds to charge subsistence fees for offenders in halfway houses and health care co-pays for inmates.
June 12, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) defeated multiple anti-home-rule amendments during the House Appropriation Committee’s markup of the fiscal year 2020 District of Columbia Appropriation bill late yesterday and thanked her Democratic colleagues for supporting the District’s right to self-government.
June 12, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the House Appropriations Committee has funded a bill that Norton led with Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) for back pay for low-wage federal contract workers furloughed during the last government shutdown.
June 11, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House of Representatives yesterday filed an amicus brief in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the denial of congressional voting rights to District of Columbia residents.
June 11, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” conversation with Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6B tonight at the Hill Center at 7:15 p.m.
June 10, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) filed an amendment last Friday to the fiscal year 2020 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill that would increase funding for the Anacostia Watershed Restoration Program, building on Norton’s longstanding work to restore the Anacostia River.
June 10, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), an annual performer in the long-running comedic event “Will on the Hill,” hosted by the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC), will appear in the performance tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW).
June 7, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak tomorrow, Saturday, June 8, 2019, at the ribbon cutting of new athletic fields at the RFK stadium site at 11:00 a.m. Norton recently introduced a bill to sell the RFK stadium site, which is currently unused federal land, to the District of Columbia for fair market value.
June 6, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will march in the 2019 Capital Pride Parade this Saturday, June 8th.
June 6, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Representative Jim Banks (R-IN) for introducing a bill that would require the District of Columbia to create, fund and administer education savings accounts (ESAs) for tuition and other private educational expenses for D.C. students who have experienced a “safety issue” at school, ranging from bullying to food safety.