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Norton Wonders Why Representatives Black and Hartlzer Would Introduce Disapproval Resolutions Permitting Discrimination Against Women and LGBT Students in Violation of Their Own Local Control Principles

April 15, 2015

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Not long after a disapproval resolution was introduced on Monday that would license discrimination against District of Columbia women in the workplace, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) pledged to fight yet another disapproval resolution introduced yesterday that would permit discrimination against LGBT students by their own universities.

After Showing D.C. Residents Pay Highest Federal Taxes Per Capita in Nation This Morning, Norton to Close out Her D.C. Emancipation Week Speeches with Special Order Hour on House Floor, Tonight

April 15, 2015

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) tonight will conclude her District of Columbia Emancipation Week floor speeches by hosting a special order hour on the House floor at 6:00 p.m. tonight in preparation for Emancipation Day, Thursday, April 16.

Norton to Launch Special Call for D.C. Statehood on House Floor Leading Up to D.C. Emancipation Day with Speech on D.C. Casualties of War, Today

April 14, 2015

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, Tuesday, April 14, at 10:00 a.m., will take to the House floor for the first of three speeches dedicated to advocating for statehood for the District of Columbia leading up to D.C. Emancipation Day on Thursday, April 16.

Norton Says Markup of Republican Resolution Seeking Right of D.C. Employers to Inquire into Reproductive Choices of Employees is an Astonishing Infringement of an Individual’s Right to Personal Liberty

April 14, 2015

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—In anticipation of a disapproval resolution that was introduced yesterday by Representative Diane Black (R-TN) to overturn a District of Columbia Council bill that protects employees in D.C. from discrimination based on their reproductive health decisions, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has been meeting with national women’s rights and reproductive choice groups preparing to defend the D.C. legislation.

Norton Commemorates Equal Pay Day by Introducing Bill to Protect Women from Wage Discrimination in Gender-Based Jobs

April 14, 2015

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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. The FPA would allow women to prove that some or all of their wage disparity is gender-based where jobs are comparable but not identical to men's jobs.

Norton Launches Floor Series on the Need for Statehood Leading Up to D.C. Emancipation Day with Speech Highlighting D.C. Casualties of War

April 14, 2015

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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.

Norton Blasts Rubio for Sacrificing D.C. Local Laws to Bolster His Presidential Bid

April 13, 2015

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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.”

Norton Statehood Bill Breaks Cosponsorship Record in Lead Up to D.C. Statehood-Emancipation Day Floor Speech Series, Next Week

April 10, 2015

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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.

Norton Writes DOJ to Urge Establishment of Local Task Forces on 21st Century Policing Now, in Light of North Charleston Shooting

April 9, 2015

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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 task forces on 21st century policing to bring police, community representatives, and public officials together to identify local policing issues and best policing practices." Norton has been considerin

Norton’s Southeast Waterfront Development Bill Continues to Have Major Economic Impact with “Ballpark Square” Groundbreaking, Today

April 8, 2015

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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.

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