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April 8, 2019
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) announced today a letter to the House Appropriations Committee urging Members to prohibit the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from using funds to carry out its proposal to move the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture from the National Capital Region and to reorganize ERS under the Office of the Secretary, a political office.
April 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to exempt from federal government shutdowns agencies that have jurisdiction only over District of Columbia matters but are exclusively or primarily funded by the federal government and not under the District’s control.
April 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” conversation with Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6D Monday night at 7:00 p.m.
April 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will present the Newseum’s Free Expression Power Shift Award to Tarana Burke, founder of the Me Too Movement, tonight at 6:30 p.m.
April 2, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today introduced the Fair Pay Act of 2019, which builds on her work enforcing the 1963 Equal Pay Act at the EEOC.
April 1, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today applauded all 47 Democratic Senators after Senators Tom Udall (D-NM) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) led their colleagues in introducing the For the People Act, the pro-democracy bill for the nation focusing on voting rights, ethics reforms, and fair elections.
April 1, 2019
Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), the Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos requesting documents and information on the federal private school voucher program in the District of Columbia. Authorization for the voucher program expires on September 30, 2019.
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).