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April 14, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who enforced both the 1963 Equal Pay Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act as the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today introduced the Fair Pay Act of 2015 (FPA), to help eliminate the gender wage gap by requiring that if men and women are doing comparable work, they are to be paid comparable wages
April 14, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today took to the House floor for the first of a three-day series of speeches calling for statehood for the District of Columbia leading up to D.C. Emancipation Day on Thursday, April 16. In today’s speech, Norton focused on official government figures that show the District has outpaced many states in casualties in the nation’s wars, even though D.C. residents have no vote in the House and no Senators.
April 13, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today assailed Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), who is expected to announce his candidacy for president today, for once again demonstrating that he has targeted the District of Columbia’s local gun safety laws to “serve his own unabashed political purposes.”
April 10, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton’s District of Columbia statehood bill, the New Columbia Admission Act, has set a new record of House cosponsors (113), breaking the old record set by Norton’s statehood bill last Congress.
April 9, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—After an unarmed man, Walter Scott, was shot and killed by a police officer in North Charleston, SC this past Saturday, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter today to the Department of Justice (DOJ) requesting that it take immediate administrative action to "provide grants from existing Department of Justice (DOJ) funds to local governments to create local ta
April 8, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will speak at a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of a 450,000 square-foot development project in the Capitol Riverfront neighborhood at 2:00 p.m. at 99 M Street SE. The development of the new parcel resulted from Norton's Southeast Federal Center Public-Private Development Act of 2000, which allowed private sector development of federal land for the first time.
April 8, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Following the tragic shooting death of an unarmed man, Walter Scott, in North Charleston, South Carolina by a police officer, who has been charged with murder, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said as soon as Congress returns from recess it should take up legislation to equip police officers with body cameras and to pass her bill to establish a grant program from existing Department of Justice funds to create local Task Forces on 21st Century Policing.
April 6, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton will host a roundtable commemorating National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month in April entitled, “Combating Sexual Assault on Campus: A Search for Realistic Remedies,” at American University on Thursday, April 23, from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
April 2, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that Norton, a member of the House Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee, will host a roundtable on U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) holdover leases in the national capital region on Thursday, April 16, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. in 2253 Rayburn House Office Building.
April 2, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As the April 15 deadline for filing taxes approaches, the office Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) alerted residents that due to budget cuts to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), after April 15 there will be substantial reductions in IRS services and resources, both in-person and over the phone.