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February 12, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Despite divisions on a controversial Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the normally bipartisan House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and one of the “Big Four” transportation leaders who wrote the recently-enacted surface transportation bill, got her major priorities for the District of Columbia and the nation into the bill, which passed the committee last night.
February 11, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today got wins on two amendments during the committee’s markup of a controversial bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
February 11, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today got one of the few Democratic amendments passed during the committee markup of a controversial bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration.
February 11, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today got a major victory for District of Columbia returning citizens by making them eligible for benefits under a new program for Federal Bureau of Prison (BOP) inmates that provides incentives and rewards for prisoners who participate in recidivism reduction programs.
February 11, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—With Frederick Douglass’s February 14 birthday approaching this Sunday, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to establish a commission to study ways that the federal government might honor and celebrate the life of Douglass during the bicentennial anniversary of his birth, in 2018.
February 10, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing examining a proposal to transfer authority over the nation’s Air Traffic Control System (ATC) to a private corporation expressed her concern about its feasibility and its responsiveness to the public on issues such as airplane noise, which has become a major problem in the District of Columbia and throughout the country.
February 10, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) for working with her to get a home-rule change to the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act, which was passed today by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
February 9, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that she was gratified that President Obama’s fiscal year 2017 budget, his final budget, contains the major funding and policy priorities for the District of Columbia that she requested, including pro-home-rule provisions to allow D.C.’s budget and laws to take effect immediately upon passage by the city.
February 8, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—To ensure that thousands of District of Columbia residents get their federal and D.C. taxes prepared free of charge, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser today held a press conference at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
February 5, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a press conference with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and representatives from Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites across D.C. to raise awareness that tax season has begun and to provide low- and moderate-income D.C. residents (income less than $54,000) information on where they can receive free income tax return preparation services at neighborhood VITA site locations on Monday, February 8, 2016, at 10:00 a.m., at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (801 G St. NW), Great Hall (First Floor).