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September 21, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today had a productive phone conversation with U.S. Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy during which she expressed her deep concern and disappointment that the Secret Service ejected hundreds of children with cancer and their parents from Lafayette Park as they began their permitted candlelight vigil scheduled for 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. on Saturday evening to raise awareness for childhood cancer and cancer research.
September 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a bipartisan press conference with Congressman Charlie Dent (R-PA), Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT) and Congressman David Jolly (R-FL) to introduce the Synthetic Drug Control Act, authored by Congressman Dent, to combat the growing proliferation of synthetic/designer drugs today, Friday, September 18, 2015, at the House Triangle (SE corner of Capitol), from 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
September 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decisions in 2011 and today upholding the constitutionality of almost all of D.C.’s major gun safety laws should put an end to congressional effort to repeal them. The appeals court has upheld the District’s registration requirements for all guns, its ban on assault weapons and its ban on large capacity magazines.
September 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today condemned House Republicans for voting to defund Planned Parenthood for one year and said the partisan bill would not defund abortion services, since federal funding already cannot be used to pay for abortions under federal law.
September 17, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was grateful to Patricia Gomez, a senior at Archbishop Carroll High School, for agreeing to help her office draw recipients of standing-room tickets to watch Pope Francis address Congress tomorrow, Friday, September 18, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. in her congressional office (2136 Rayburn House Office Building).
September 16, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congressman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) is encouraging residents to receive health screenings, information, and support services by many of the region’s leading health care providers and organizations at a free health clinic Thursday, September 17, 2015, from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (901 G St. NW).
September 15, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her office will hold a lottery drawing later this week to determine recipients of the Congresswoman’s allotted standing-room tickets to watch Pope Francis’ address to Congress on jumbotrons on the West Lawn of the Capitol on Thursday, September 24, 2015.
September 11, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congressman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that the Congressional Black Caucus’ (CBC) Health Braintrust, with Norton and CBC Braintrust Chairwoman Dr. Robin Kelly, Ph.D. (D-IL), will host a free community health screening clinic on Thursday, September 17, 2015, from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (901 G St. NW).
September 11, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on the 14th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
September 11, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was grateful to Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), after the Senate yesterday passed his bill by unanimous consent to modernize and improve the daily operations of the District of Columbia Courts, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA).