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June 15, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The day after the horrific shooting of Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and others at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, VA, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that, according to a press report, Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) has introduced a bill to force the District of Columbia to recognize out-of-state permits to carry concealed guns, regardless of the standards those states use for issuing permits.
June 13, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—After the District of Columbia Council today passed its fiscal year 2018 local budget, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) is poised to defend it from being nullified by a disapproval resolution during the congressional review period.
June 13, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a media availability in her office with Dan Diaz, the widower of California medical aid-in-dying advocate Brittany Maynard, to discuss their efforts to defend the District of Columbia’s Death with Dignity Act (DWDA), Wednesday, June 14, 2017, at noon, in 2136 Rayburn House Office Building.
June 13, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to clarify that the District of Columbia has the authority to enter into cooperative management agreements (CMAs) with the National Park Service (NPS) to maintain and invest in NPS properties in the city.
June 13, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called on Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to question nominees for federal positions in the District of Columbia, including federal district court judge, U.S. Attorney and U.S. Marshal, on whether they intend to reside in D.C. during their terms.
June 12, 2017
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, June 12, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. at Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW).
June 9, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced the workshop schedule for her 2017 Small Business Fair, which is on Thursday, June 15, 2017, from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (801 Mount Vernon Place NW).
June 8, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today responded to the announcement that Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has been recommended by the Republican Steering Committee as the next chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), which has jurisdiction over the District of Columbia, and that he is expected to be confirmed in that role by a vote of the full Republican Caucus next week.
June 8, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host her annual Service Academy College Fair and Sendoff to present her ten 2017 nominees to the U.S. Service Academies and Service Academy Preparatory Schools today, Thursday, June 8, 2017, from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., in the Old Council Chamber at One Judiciary Square (441 4th St. NW).
June 7, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to eliminate the requirement that residents at Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) halfway houses (Residential Reentry Centers) pay a subsistence fee of 25 percent of their gross income to offset the cost of being housed.