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September 25, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—With aircraft noise rising here in the District of Columbia and around the country, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus and a senior Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Aviation Subcommittee, today announced she has gotten several of her provisions to help address airplane noise and other priorities included in the final House-Senate negotiated Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill.
September 24, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a Yale Law School alumna, today supported a letter signed by 47 members of the Yale Law School faculty calling on the Senate to conduct a fair and deliberate confirmation process that includes an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
September 22, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will speak at two events celebrating and supporting the District of Columbia’s LBGTQ community.
September 21, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) can be seen on this week’s airing of the PBS series “To The Contrary” today, Friday, September 21, 2018, at 5:30 p.m. (WETA); Saturday, September 22, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. (WHUT); and Sunday, September 23, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. (WETA).
September 20, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will introduce a bill to require all federal agencies to include in their annual budget requests to Congress the amount they spent in the most recent fiscal year on advertising contracts with newspapers and media companies owned by minorities and women, as well as projections of such spending for the upcoming fiscal year.
September 20, 2018
Why are Republicans resisting the standard FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford against Judge Brett Kavanaugh (President George H.W. Bush ordered one during the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas controversy)?
September 19, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus, released a detailed summary of findings from Norton’s community meeting on reducing helicopter noise in the District of Columbia.
September 10, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called for the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Agriculture Committee to hold a joint hearing to examine the legality of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) proposal to dismantle existing USDA agencies by moving the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute for Food and Agriculture from the nation’s capital by the end of 2019, as well as to move ERS into the Office of the Secretary, a political branch.
September 6, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) study on the District of Columbia Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG), released today, shows the program has been successful in providing D.C. students access to higher education.
September 4, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Aviation Subcommittee, today released Norton’s letter to Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority President and CEO John Potter regarding the absence of signage and direction at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to inform people where to pick up arriving passengers and to inform passengers where to meet arriving private vehicles during construction at the airport.