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February 18, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” community conversation with the Kingman Park Civic Association tonight, Thursday, February 18, 2016, from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., at St. Benedict the Moor Church (320 21st St. NE).
February 17, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will give remarks at the University of the District of Columbia’s (UDC) 40th Anniversary Founders’ Day Celebration tomorrow, February 18, 2016, at 10:00 a.m., on UDC’s Van Ness Campus at the Theater of the Arts Auditorium (Connecticut Ave. at Windom Circle, NW).
February 17, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be the featured guest at a Black Heritage Celebration hosted by George Washington University tonight, February 17, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., in Room B07 at the George Washington School of Media & Public Affairs (805 21st St. NW).
February 16, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will commemorate Black History Month by hosting a community discussion entitled, “Young Black Empowerment: A Roundtable on Millennial Success Stories” on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., at the Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School Library (2427 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE).
February 13, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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.