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January 8, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—After successfully pushing back four attempts to overturn the District of Columbia’s gun safety laws last year, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said the most recent Republican to take on D.C.’s gun laws “must not have gotten the memo.” Representative David Schweikert (R-AZ) yesterday introduced a bill to force D.C. to recognize out-of-state permits to carry concealed guns, regardless of the standards those states use for issuing permits.
January 7, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In remarks prepared for the House floor, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday blasted House Republicans for beginning 2016 with the old, discredited business of voting to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for the 62nd time and defunding Planned Parenthood as their first major legislative action of the new year.
January 7, 2016
Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) urged U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx to quickly make grant funds available to states so they can experiment with alternate ways to finance the Highway Trust Fund in a manner that will provide long-term certainty to state and local governments.
January 5, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s executive actions to reduce gun violence.
January 5, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill that would give the District of Columbia exclusive authority, like states, to grant clemency for criminal convictions under its laws.
January 4, 2016
Is there a connection between the Paris and San Bernardino attacks on the one hand, and the increasing success of the US-Coalition strategy in the Middle East on the other?
December 30, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee and one of the “Big Four” leaders who wrote the recently signed surface transportation legislation, today released her letter to Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Acting Administrator Therese McMillan inquiring whether the new year should bring changes in the current form of FTA monitoring of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to help relieve the transit agency from dependence on short-term borrowing.
December 29, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that when Congress returns from recess she will introduce a bill to permit commercial filming and photography on the U.S. Capitol Grounds beyond Union Square, the single area where it is currently permitted when both chambers of Congress are out of session.
December 27, 2015
Representing the District of Columbia, I can afford only conservative assumptions when predicting the unknown – 2016. So, here goes.
December 23, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission is accepting applications for an upcoming vacancy on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.