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November 30, 2015
Today, for the first time, many Americans are learning about transgender people and issues. Violence historically has been the first reaction to the emergence of groups that demand equality for the first time.
November 27, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today visited the front of the White House with a television reporter after a man she called the “Thanksgiving Jumper” made it over temporary spikes installed to prevent jumping over the White House perimeter fence.
November 27, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer her gratitude at the Arena Stage’s Fifth Annual Military Thanksgiving to more than 200 District of Columbia-area wounded warriors, service men and women, and their families, who will enjoy dinner and a performance of Oliver! tonight, Friday, November 27, 2015, at 5:30 p.m., at Arena Stage (1101 Sixth Street SW).
November 27, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—With the historic early release of the first 6,000 low-level federal inmates nationwide this month, the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that three federal returning citizens and two D.C. Code returning citizens will testify at a roundtable chaired by Norton on Tuesday, December 1, 2015, at the Old City Council Chambers (441 Judiciary Sq. NW), from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
November 26, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today said she was astonished that a man successfully jumped over the White House fence on Thanksgiving afternoon while the President and the first family were inside, and said that she will ask U.S. Secret Service leadership to meet with her early next week to discuss quick corrective action.
November 23, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) responded today to a new Washington Post poll showing 71% of registered voters in the District of Columbia support statehood.
November 23, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a roundtable to examine ways to ensure assistance for returning citizens to the District of Columbia as they transition back to society, including federal inmates from D.C. whose sentences were retroactively reduced last year by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, on Tuesday, December 1, 2015, at the Old City Council Chambers (441 Judiciary Sq. NW), from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
November 20, 2015
The Smithsonian Museum of African American History, not yet opened to the public, was introduced to the District this week. Ever the visionary, Director Lonnie Bunch engineered a mixture of history and music with the sites as a background with D.C. citizens the first to be there, even before the grand opening with the President in 2016.
November 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) after he announced plans to introduce a bill to eliminate the District of Columbia’s gun safety laws.
November 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) delivered this week’s Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) “Message to America.” Norton focused on the CBC’s work that led to the fight against mandatory minimums—which is now bearing fruit with the early release this month of about 6,000 federal prisoners, who had their drug sentences reduced.