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July 15, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, today took to the House floor to call on Congress to pass a long-term, six-year surface transportation bill and update the gas user fee for the first time in 22 years.
July 14, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that, in a conversation today, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally told Norton that she strongly supports statehood for the District of Columbia.
July 14, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the final nuclear deal reached among Iran, the United States and major world powers, which would phase out economic sanctions in exchange for Iran’s assenting to cut off its pathway to a nuclear bomb.
July 14, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, today released the following statement on the Pentagon’s plan to establish a working group aimed at lifting the ban on transgender individuals serving openly in the military.
July 14, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes vocalist Rogiérs for a Lunchtime Music on the Mall performance today, Tuesday, July 14, 2015, from noon – 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, at 7th Street and Jefferson Drive SW.
July 13, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—After making her third trip to Guantanamo Bay this past weekend, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), today said she was able to tour all parts of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and therefore could compare it to her trip in 2005.
July 13, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and eight National Capital Region cosponsors introduced the RECOVER Act (Reducing the Effects of the Cyberattack on OPM Victims Emergency Response Act of 2015) to provide free lifetime identity theft protection coverage to the more than 22.1 million current, former and prospective federal employees whose personnel data has been compromised by widespread Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breaches.
July 10, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced Joslyn (Josh) Williams as the newest member of Norton’s Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission.
July 10, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), in her work on rail safety for the District of Columbia and as a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, sent her staff on Wednesday to observe rail car safety training exercises being conducted by the D.C. Fire and EMS Department along the CSX railroad.
July 9, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that House Republicans must take responsibility for the fact the Confederate flag continues to fly in Congress. Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in a privileged motion, forced a vote on a resolution to remove any state flag that contains any portion of the Confederate flag from the House side of the U.S. Capitol.