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April 17, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) tonight will speak at two events in support of two organized labor unions that will be vital to the construction of the District of Columbia’s new Frederick Douglass Bridge Memorial Bridge and the Arlington Memorial Bridge.
April 17, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that she will use President Trump’s recent support for respecting state policies regulating marijuana to give a boost to her efforts to remove the congressional rider that bars the District of Columbia from spending its local funds on commercializing recreational marijuana.
April 17, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Representative Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) for launching another attack on the District of Columbia’s medical aid-in-dying law, the Death with Dignity Act (DWDA).
April 16, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today on District of Columbia Emancipation Day announced the addition of three new cosponsors—Representatives Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Susan Davis (D-CA) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY)—to her D.C. statehood bill (H.R. 1291) and thanked D.C. residents and activists who came to Capitol Hill to meet with members of the House and Senate.
April 14, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will introduce tonight's performance by the National Symphony Orchestra at 8:00 p.m. at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (2700 F. St. NW).
April 13, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a reception to welcome the new students from the University of the District of Columbia’s (UDC) David A. Clark School of Law today, Friday, April 13, 2018, in the Rayburn Foyer, at 6:00 p.m.
April 13, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will march in the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade tomorrow, Saturday, April 14, 2018, beginning at 10:00 a.m., at the intersection of 7th St. NW and Constitution Ave. NW. Norton will march with the Girl Scouts of the National Capital Region.
April 13, 2018
Today, DC begins its commemoration of DC Emancipation Day, when slaves in the nation’s capital were freed 9 months before the Emancipation Proclamation.
April 12, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will use the lead-up to District of Columbia Emancipation Day to highlight her efforts to make D.C. the 51st state, including the historic level of congressional support she has garnered for her statehood bill.
April 11, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the enactment of the Fair Housing Act, which was authored by Senator Edward Brooke (R-MA), the nation’s first popularly-elected African American senator and a native son of the District of Columbia, who served from 1967 to 1979.