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June 17, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will give remarks to welcome the National Children’s Museum (NCM) back to the District of Columbia tomorrow, Monday, June 18, 2018, at 10:00 a.m., at Woodrow Wilson Plaza (1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW).
June 14, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV) today wrapped up their friendly wager on the Stanley Cup Finals matchup between the Washington Capitals and Vegas Golden Knights with Titus taking a photo in a D.C. Statehood shirt in Norton’s office.
June 14, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she will file amendments to strike all five anti-home-rule riders from the House fiscal year 2019 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, which was passed by the House Appropriations Committee last night, when it goes to the House floor.
June 13, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) announced that the U.S. Senate yesterday passed their congressional resolution congratulating the Washington Capitals for winning the 2018 Stanley Cup, the first championship in team history.
June 13, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a community meeting on National Park Service (NPS) policies affecting the ability of organized sports teams to reserve space and play games on the National Mall on Monday, June 18, 2018, at 6:30 p.m., in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building.
June 12, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) today introduced a congressional resolution congratulating the Washington Capitals for winning the 2018 Stanley Cup, the first championship in team history.
June 12, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As part of her effort to rid federal law of anti-home-rule provisions, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that she will introduce a bill to repeal a redundant 1997 federal law that makes it a crime for a person in the District of Columbia to obstruct any bridge connecting D.C. and Virginia.
June 11, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and her District of Columbia Commission on Black Men and Boys will host a special hearing, entitled “Black Men Mentoring Black Boys Making the Difference,” tomorrow, Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at 6:30 p.m., at 2235 Shannon PL SE (2nd Floor Hearing Room).
June 11, 2018
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, Monday, June 11, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. at Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW).
June 11, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will introduce legislation to eliminate the President’s authority to federalize the local District of Columbia police department, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). The President has no authority to federalize any other local or state police department.