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October 22, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, announced that her major legislative priorities for the District of Columbia and the nation, including her amendment to implement direct federal safety oversight of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (WMATA) Metrorail, were included in the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 (STRR), which passed the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today.
October 21, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today issued the following statement as hundreds of airport contract workers from around the nation rallied at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) to fight for a living wage of $15 per hour, affordable benefits and the right to organize without intimidation.
October 21, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), in opposing a bill to reauthorize the District of Columbia private school voucher program, today tried to protect students who are already in the program by allowing every current voucher student to remain until their graduation.
October 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will join House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chair G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) for a roundtable discussion with Howard University students on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, from 11:00 a.m. – noon, at Howard’s Founders Library Browsing Room (500 Howard PL. NW).
October 20, 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, today introduced the Protect Riders of Metrorail Public Transportation (PROMPT) Act of 2015 with Congresswomen Donna F. Edwards (D-MD) and Barbara Comstock (R-VA), both of whom also serve on the Highways and Transit Subcommittee.
October 20, 2015
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders today introduced the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 (H.R. 3763), a bipartisan, multi-year surface transportation bill to reauthorize and reform federal highway, transit, and highway safety programs.
October 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will testify against a reauthorization bill to impose a private school voucher program on the District of Columbia at a House Rules Committee hearing scheduled for today, Tuesday, October 20, at 5:00 p.m. in H-313.
October 20, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she appreciated the Obama administration’s Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) strongly opposing Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) bill, H.R. 10, to reauthorize the District of Columbia private school voucher program.
October 19, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the briefing on District of Columbia statehood with a screening of HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver D.C. statehood segment followed by a question and answer segment, originally scheduled for Wednesday, October 21, 2015, must be postponed because a bill to impose private school vouchers on the District is scheduled to come to the House floor that day.
October 15, 2015
Planned Parenthood took the high road and a smart turn in the road by announcing that they will continue fetal tissue donations, but will no longer accept reimbursements. They have now taken both legs out from under the Republican attack on Planned Parenthood. With the fetal tissue issue gone, Planned Parenthood has exposed the real attack—on women's health and on constitutionally protected abortion. The other leg is the Planned Parenthood select committee—which is now widely recognized as the Republican default strategy when their committees fail.