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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Representative Keith Rothfus (R-PA) for filing an anti-home-rule rider to the fiscal year 2019 District of Columbia Appropriations bill to prohibit D.C. from using its local funds to collect taxes as part of enforcing the Health Insurance Requirement Amendment Act of 2018 (HIRA), which requires D.C. residents to maintain health insurance coverage, and failure to do so results in a tax liability.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Representatives Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Gary Palmer (R-AL) for each filing two anti-democratic riders to the fiscal year 2019 District of Columbia Appropriations bill to block two local D.C. bills.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called a 1997 federal law that requires the District of Columbia Inspector General (IG) to provide quarterly reports to Congress on the number and nature of calls, including hang-ups, received through its telephone number for reporting waste, fraud and abuse an example of how far Congress has gone with intervention into routine D.C. matters.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday met with the Smithsonian Institution’s Secretary, David Skorton, and its Chief Operating Officer and Under Secretary for Finance and Administration, Albert Horvath, about her concerns with the Smithsonian’s proposal for heightened security at the National Zoo.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that, pending statehood, Congress’ authority over the District of Columbia means that the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court poses a unique threat to women and the LGBTQ community in the District.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today filed amendments to strike all five anti-home-rule riders from the House’s fiscal year 2019 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, which is expected to be considered on the floor next week.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus’ Judicial Nominations Task Force and a constitutional lawyer who argued and won a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, issued the followed statement on President Trump’s announcement of Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia as his nominee to the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she has requested a meeting with the Acting Director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, Steven Monfort, to discuss the Smithsonian Institution’s proposal to install new security check points and reduce the number of entrances from 13 to three.