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March 2, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, co-chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus and a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, continued her efforts to reduce airplane noise in the District of Columbia and across the country at a committee hearing yesterday.
March 2, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The day after introducing her bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state and hosting Mayor Muriel Bowser and Chairman Phil Mendelson at the Capitol to deliver the D.C. Council’s formal petition for statehood to the Congress, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will take special-order time on the House floor to speak on D.C. statehood today, Thursday, March 2, 2017, at approximately 11:15 a.m.
March 1, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her statement ahead of a dual-purpose District of Columbia statehood press conference today with Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson.
March 1, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a press conference with Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson for a dual-purpose D.C. statehood event today, Wednesday, March 1, 2017, at 2:00 p.m., in 406 Dirksen Senate Office Building (Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works).
February 28, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will bring Claudette Monroy, a District of Columbia resident who benefited from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), as her guest to President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress this evening.
February 28, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton’s bill, the Fairness for Breastfeeding Mothers Act (H.R. 1174), to require buildings that are either federally owned or leased to provide designated private and hygienic lactation spaces for nursing mothers passed the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee by voice vote.
February 27, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a press conference with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, and Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) for a dual-purpose D.C. statehood event on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, at 2:00 p.m., at the House Triangle (SE corner of Capitol).
February 21, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a town hall to protect the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from Republican congressional attacks and to hear from District of Columbia residents who have benefitted from the ACA, including those with employer-provided insurance, seniors, women, and Medicaid enrollees, on Thursday, February 23, 2017, at 6:00 p.m., at One Judiciary Square (441 4th St. NW), Old Council Chamber (First Floor).
February 18, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a town hall on protecting the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from Republican attacks in Congress and to hear from District of Columbia residents who have benefitted from the ACA, including those with employer-provided insurance, seniors, women, and Medicaid enrollees, on Thursday, February 23, 2017, at a location to be determined.
Norton Cites a Victory as D.C.’s ‘Death with Dignity Act’ Takes Effect Tomorrow, But Fight Continues
February 17, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the District of Columbia’s medical aid-in-dying bill, the Death with Dignity Act, will take effect tomorrow, Saturday, February 18, 2017. Under the Home Rule Act, D.C. bills take effect upon the expiration of a congressional review period, unless a joint resolution disapproving a bill is enacted into law during the review period.