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November 5, 2015
Following three days of debate, during which over 100 amendments were considered, the U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan, multi-year surface transportation bill to reauthorize and reform federal highway, transit, and highway safety programs.
November 4, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called her friend, Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, upon learning of his decision to retire at the end of next year and issued the following statement.
November 4, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter she wrote to Architect of the Capitol Stephen Ayers and District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) Director Leif Dormsjo urging support for the construction of a protected bicycle lane facility on Louisiana Avenue NE between Union Station and the U.S. Capitol Grounds.
November 4, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s subcommittee on Highways and Transit, helped open debate yesterday on the House floor on the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 (STRR).
November 3, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released an advance copy of Norton’s testimony ahead of a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing on reauthorizing the District of Columbia private school voucher program, scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, November 4, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in 343 Dirksen Senate Office Building.
November 3, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced new statistics showing District of Columbia residents employed and D.C. small businesses contracted at federal construction projects in the city that were achieved through Norton’s legislative work.
November 3, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—At an Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing today with the new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator, Peter Neffenger, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) raised the issue of TSA agents being unable to recognize the new District of Columbia license, which was changed from “Washington, D.C.” to “District of Columbia,” in May 2014.
November 2, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” community conversation hosted by the Brightwood Park Civic Association tonight, Monday, November 2, 2015 from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. at the Emery Recreation Center (5701 Georgia Ave. NW).
October 29, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement following the election of Congressman Paul D. Ryan (R-WI) as Speaker of the House.
October 29, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was pleased by the quick actions and response by Smithsonian Institution Secretary David Skorton, detailed in a letter written to Norton, in which he described action he has taken to strengthen practices and policies to ensure that employees of the Smithsonian who are nursing mothers “have access to appropriate private places to pump breast milk for their babies” and tasking “all our directors and supervisors to immediately identify…appropriate space for nursing mothers.”