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July 21, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In response to a newly approved U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) regulation that expands USCP’s search powers on Capitol Grounds, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today issued a statement on USCP’s “obligation to keep the Capitol Grounds secure and its corollary obligation to maintain the Capitol Grounds as an open space, a First Amendment space, and one of the great parks in the nation’s capital.”
July 21, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes poets from Split This Rock for a Lunchtime Music on the Mall performance today, Tuesday, July 21, 2015, from noon – 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, at 7th Street and Jefferson Drive SW. Split This Rock is a District of Columbia-based organization devoted to poetry and promoting social justice.
July 19, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), issued a statement today congratulating the Commission for its “historic breakthrough ruling that ‘allegations of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation necessarily state a claim of discrimination on the basis of sex.’”
July 19, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host her annual 2015 Senior Legislative Day on Monday, July 20, 2015, from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. at the first federal agency to be built east of the Anacostia River, the newly-constructed U.S. Coast Guard’s St. Elizabeth West Campus (2699 Firth Sterling Ave. SE), which was built as a result of Norton’s efforts.
July 17, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will give remarks at the first-ever annual Young African ConneXions Summit today, Friday, July 17, 2015, at 3:00 p.m. at the Howard University School of Business Auditorium (2600 6th Street NW).
July 16, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—After the Senate passed its reauthorization the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) today and after the House passed its bill last week, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that all amendments introduced in the House and Senate to establish national voucher programs as part of ESEA reauthorization had failed, “starkly demonstrating that there is no support nationally or in Congress for private school vouchers.”
July 16, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) recently became the first House Member to cosponsor the Synthetic Abuse and Labeling of Toxic Substances Act of 2015 (SALTS Act, H.R. 1186), a bill that would help law enforcement crack down on synthetic drugs, such as K2, Bath Salts, Spice, Scooby Snax, and others.
July 16, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a “bottoming out” event for The Wharf, marking the end of site excavation for the first phase of the 24-acre mixed-use waterfront community, today, Thursday, July 16, 2015, at 11:30 a.m. at 690 Water Street SW.
July 15, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, will speak at a film screening and subsequent panel discussion of the women leaders of the civil rights era as part of the first night of the March on Washington Film Festival today, Wednesday, July 15, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. at the Historic Metropolitan A.M.E. Church (1518 M St. NW).
July 15, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a resolution marking Saturday, July 25th as National Dance Day, celebrated annually on the last Saturday of July. National Dance Day celebrations began on the National Mall in the District of Columbia and in Los Angeles, California in 2010.