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April 11, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) requesting a hearing on the violent removal of a passenger from a United Airlines flight this past Sunday.
April 10, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and its Subcommittee on Aviation, released the following statement calling for a hearing on the violent removal of a passenger from a United Airlines flight.
April 6, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Quiet Skies Caucus, led by co-chairs Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and vice chairs Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA), wrote to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development requesting they include in the Subcommittee's fiscal year 2018 appropriations bill two important provisions to help mitigate airplane noise.
April 4, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who enforced the 1963 Equal Pay Act (EPA) as a former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, today introduced the Fair Pay Act of 2017 (FPA), to help eliminate the gender wage gap by requiring men and women doing comparable work to be paid comparable wages.
April 4, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she would vigorously defend from congressional interference a bill passed by the District of Columbia Council today that requires health plans to provide coverage for preventive health services for women, including contraceptives.
April 3, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the passing of her good friend and former Ward 6 Councilmember Sharon Ambrose.
April 3, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Judicial Nomination Working Group, will co-host a CBC special order on the House floor with CBC members to oppose the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court tonight, Monday, April 3, 2017, at approximately 8:00 p.m.
March 29, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today at a House Government Operations Subcommittee hearing on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) SafeTrack maintenance program and WMATA’s financial situation called out the federal government as a “free rider,” because it is the only regional actor that relies on Metro that does not contribute to WMATA’s operationing budget.
March 29, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the passing of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Roger Wilkins.
March 28, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill that would give the District of Columbia exclusive authority, like states and U.S. territories, to grant clemency for criminal convictions under its laws. The District of Columbia Home Rule Clemency Act is part of Norton’s “Free and Equal D.C.” series.