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January 22, 2015
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Is there any way to make an anti-woman, anti-choice bill worse? Sure there is. Add a provision that keeps a local jurisdiction, the District of Columbia, from spending its own local funds on poor women exactly as 17 states do.

January 22, 2015

*Nominating Commission Begins Accepting Applications*

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement regarding the announcement that U.S. Parole Commission (USPC) Chairman Isaac Fulwood Jr. will be retiring, effective at the end of the month:


January 20, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that newly elected District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser will be her guest for tonight's State of the Union address.


January 18, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) tomorrow will commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at two events. Norton will give the keynote address at the opening ceremony of George Washington University's annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


January 16, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) reports that the District of Columbia statehood bill's 93 original cosponsors, a record number of Members who cosponsored the bill before its introduction, ranks in the top 1% of the 662 bills introduced thus far in the 114th Congress.


January 15, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will tour the Anacostia River Tunnel Project Site in Southeast Washington, D.C. on Friday, January 16 at 1:00 PM, and will be joined by Vice President Joe Biden, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy.


January 14, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that an additional $48.6 million for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) consolidation at St. Elizabeths in Ward 8 was included in the fiscal year 2015 DHS Appropriations bill, which passed the House today.