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May 23, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today spoke on the House floor to urge consideration of her bill (H.R. 2096) to require the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to collect and publish broad demographic characteristics, including race, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, of missing children.
May 23, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget is better for the District of Columbia than expected, providing $30 million from Norton’s major priority, the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG)—but down from the $40 million she secured in the fiscal year 2017 omnibus appropriations bill, the first spending bill enacted into law during the Trump administration.
May 19, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today attended a closed-door briefing by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with the full of House of Representatives, which she said should have been held in public because Rosenstein refused to answer questions on issues that have troubled Members and the American public.
May 18, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and joined the Mayor and other city officials and leaders to break ground on South Capitol Street Apartments, a rare project that will bring hundreds of affordable housing units to Ward 8.
May 18, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urging him to take immediate action to hold accountable Turkish officials who viciously attacked peaceful protestors gathered outside the Turkish Ambassador’s residence in the District of Columbia earlier this week.
May 17, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today joined the National Cannabis Industry Association and her fellow members of the bipartisan Congressional Cannabis Caucus at a Capitol Hill press conference.
May 17, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she supports the discharge petition Democrats plan to file today to force a vote on H.R. 356, a bipartisan bill to establish an outside, independent commission to investigate Russia’s interference during the 2016 elections and possible ties between Russia and President Trump.
May 16, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a press conference hosted by the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) tomorrow, Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at 9:30 a.m., and the House Triangle (SE corner of Capitol).
May 16, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to add the Mayor of the District of Columbia to the list of named principals for whom the president can order the nation’s flag be flown at half-staff.
May 11, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Next week, during National Infrastructure Week (May 15-19), Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, will introduce a bill to make the District of Columbia eligible for federal flood mitigation and prevention funding in light of concern about the increased threat of flooding in D.C. neighborhoods, downtown, and the National Mall.