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April 1, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” conversation with Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 4A tomorrow night at the Metropolitan Police Department’s District Four Station at 6:00 p.m.
March 28, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to the Senate urging it to address the vacancy crisis in the local District of Columbia courts.
March 28, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton’s Pay Equity for All Act, which prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their salary history, passed the House of Representatives yesterday as part of H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act, authored by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT).
March 26, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act (H.R. 1496), which updates the 1958 Former Presidents Act, includes language that removes the current law’s treatment of the District of Columbia government as part of the federal government.
March 26, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at Georgetown’s 3rd Annual Criminal Justice Summit tomorrow to discuss her work on criminal justice reform.
March 26, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) joined District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Brian Kenner, and U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) today to highlight federal Opportunity Zones legislation that Norton and Scott worked on together to ensure benefits would go to D.C. neighborhoods and businesses.
March 26, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to sell the RFK stadium site, unused federal land, to the District of Columbia for fair market value.
March 25, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at three events tomorrow, joining District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser at the Entertainment & Sports Arena to discuss Opportunity Zones, which Norton ensured would be available in D.C., speaking at an underride crash test demonstration, and attending a DC Vote Happy Hour as momentum builds for a House floor vote on Norton’s D.C. statehood bill.
March 25, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at events today to celebrate women in politics and to present an award former District of Columbia Mayor Anthony Williams.
March 21, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the first woman to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today announced that Norton’s Pay Equity for All Act, which prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their salary history, will be considered on the House floor next week as part of H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act.