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January 13, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Building on the unprecedented hearing in the Senate last Congress, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), today introduced her bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, with a record number of original cosponsors. Last Congress was history-making for the District's efforts to achieve statehood.


January 13, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement regarding yesterday's Metro incident that resulted in one death, two critical injuries, and 84 passengers being treated for smoke inhalation and various injuries:


January 9, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a remembrance of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, whose funeral service was held Tuesday, January 6, 2015.

For Mario Cuomo


January 9, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today offered her thoughts on the announcement that her friend, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), will not be seeking reelection to the U.S. Senate.


January 9, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today telephoned Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) to applaud the city's good fortune with the announcement that the Senator will serve as ranking member on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, which has jurisdiction over D.C. appropriation.


January 8, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that as rank and file police prepare to come to the nation's capital on January 17, 2015 for a "Sea of Blue" march, the District will welcome them as we have others to assert their concerns.


January 8, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a letter to Peter May, National Park Service (NPS) Associate Regional Director for Lands, Planning, and Design for the National Capital Region, asking him to meet with her before taking any further action on approving the Francis Marion Memorial, and he has agreed.


January 8, 2015
Editorial

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that as rank and file police prepare to come to the nation's capital on January 17, 2015 for a "Sea of Blue" march, the District will welcome them as we have others to assert their concerns.


January 7, 2015
Blog

In their first vote of the 114th Congress, the majority used their first votes to eliminate the vote in the Committee of the Whole of the residents of your Nation's Capital. That vote on some, but certainly not all, matters had been approved by the federal courts. We have used this vote in three Congresses, but not when Republicans controlled.