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November 10, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that when Congress returns from recess next week, Norton will introduce a bill to require certain officials who serve the District of Columbia to live in the city.
November 10, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” community conversation with the Penn Branch Citizens Civic Association tonight, Tuesday, November 10, 2015, from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church (3000 Pennsylvania Ave. SE).
November 9, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), said she was stunned and saddened to learn of the passing of former EEOC Chair Jacqueline Berrien.
November 9, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued the following statement after the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) announced today that it would welcome the District of Columbia as a member of the organization.
November 6, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the President’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline project permit.
November 5, 2015
By Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
Some have wondered why I recommended a new U.S. Attorney for the District, Channing Phillips, instead of Vincent Cohen, who was Principal U.S. Attorney under former U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen, and why President Obama, after doing his own investigation, nominated Mr. Phillips.
November 5, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee and a member of the “Big Four” transportation leaders that introduced the six-year surface transportation bill that passed the House today, released the following statement after the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) Board named Paul Wiedefeld as the agency’s new General Manager and Chief Executive Officer.
November 5, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—With the 2015-2016 open enrollment period for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act launching this week, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to relieve the District of a portion of Medicaid costs it has uniquely borne for years.
November 5, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced María E. Holleran Rivera as the newest member of her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission. The Commission screens and recommends candidates for important federal law enforcement positions in the District of Columbia from whom Norton chooses her recommendations to the President.
November 5, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has redoubled her efforts to ensure that the District of Columbia’s right to self-government is preserved as final negotiations begin on a fiscal year 2016 omnibus spending bill, with Republican House and Senate leaders insisting that controversial riders be included in the bill.