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March 30, 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, March 30, 2018, at 5:30 p.m. (WETA), Saturday, March 31, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. (WHUT), and Sunday, April 1, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. (WETA).
March 28, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—After the recent police shooting of an unarmed African American man in Sacramento, California last week and the decision yesterday by Louisiana officials not to press charges against Baton Rouge officers who shot and killed Alton Sterling, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced she will introduce her bill to establish a grant program from existing Department of Justice funds to create local Task Forces on 21st Century Policing.
March 27, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced she will introduce legislation, the District of Columbia Juror Pay Parity Act, to increase the pay of D.C. Superior Court jurors.
March 23, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the “Rally for DC Lives” with District of Columbia students and other local leaders on Saturday, March 24, 2018, at 9:00 a.m., at Folger Park (3rd St. and D St. SE), ahead of the national “March for Our Lives.”
March 22, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on the passing of her friend George Wilson, a veteran African-American journalist who covered national and local District of Columbia politics.
March 22, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will join students from across the District of Columbia region and the country for a special “March For Our Lives” Town Hall, hosted by WUSA, tomorrow, Friday, March 23, 2018, from 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., at Sidney Harman Hall (610 F St. NW).
March 22, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) got major wins for the District of Columbia topped by maintaining the record $40 million for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG) in the fiscal year 2018 omnibus appropriations bill last night.
March 20, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has put in a call to her friend District of Columbia Councilmember Trayon White (Ward 8), following his comments suggesting that the Rothschilds—a prominent Jewish family—control the climate and the federal government.
March 19, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today criticized Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) for failing to disclose to the public that his anti-LGBT First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) applies not only to the federal government but to one local jurisdiction, the District of Columbia, as well.
March 19, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA) and Congressman André Carson (D-IN) today introduced a bill to clarify and protect certain due process rights of federal employees serving in sensitive positions. The bill would overturn a 2013 federal court decision that stripped many federal employees of due process rights to an independent review of an agency decision removing them from a job on national security grounds.