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March 3, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that the national capital region’s members, including not only House Members, but especially its four Senators, must devise a joint strategy to secure funding to fully replace the Arlington Memorial Bridge after a recent Federal Highway Administration inspection found that the bridge will need a major overhaul or be forced to close in 2021.
March 2, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today expressed her appreciation to the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) as it began construction of a bike lane through Lafayette Park that Norton pressed the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and National Park Service (NPS) to allow to proceed.
March 2, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the momentum generated by strong bipartisan passage of her amendment prohibiting the use of electronic cigarettes and vaping devices for smoking on airplanes has pushed the Department of Transportation (DOT) to follow suit and issue a final rule that explicitly bans the use of electronic cigarettes on commercial flights.
March 2, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said two of her top priorities were included in the Public Buildings Reform and Savings Act of 2016, which Norton cosponsored and was passed today by the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
March 1, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” community conversation with the Palisades Citizens’ Association tonight, Tuesday, March 1, 2016, from 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., at the Palisades Recreation Center (5200 Sherier PL NW).
February 25, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today at an Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) hearing pressed the importance of her bill to provide free lifetime identity theft coverage to current, former and prospective federal employees whose personal data were compromised in recent U.S. Office of Personnel Management data breaches.
February 25, 2016
The refusal of Senate Republicans to even hold a hearing on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia naturally generates controversy, even anger, among Democrats.
February 24, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today at a Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment hearing used her time to ask three questions of particular concern to District of Columbia residents – lead levels in D.C.’s water supply, ground water testing in the Spring Valley neighborhood, and flooding of the National Mall and D.C. neighborhoods.
February 23, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement regarding President Obama’s announcement today of his plan for closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility.
February 23, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she will once again vigorously defend two District of Columbia anti-discrimination laws from being overturned after the Heritage Foundation’s fiscal year 2017 budget blueprint for Congress, released today, calls for the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act (RHNDA) and the Human Rights Amendment Act (HRAA) to blocked or overturned.