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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. A little noted Norton amendment banning racial profiling passed in the House Fiscal Year 2015 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (T-HUD) appropriations bill and was included in the fiscal year 2015 omnibus appropriations bill.
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. Norton said, "Parks owned by the NPS but used by neighborhood residents require respect and deference from the parties.
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. A little noted Norton amendment banning racial profiling passed in the House Fiscal Year 2015 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (T-HUD) appropriations bill and was included in the fiscal year 2015 omnibus appropriations bill.
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.
With their large majority, Republicans showed themselves to be small in principle when they voted to eliminate the vote of D.C. citizens, who pay the highest federal taxes per capita in the Nation.
When the House Republican majority offered the Rules for the 114th Congress this afternoon, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), in an attempt to restore to the Rules the District of Columbia's delegate vote in the Committee of the Whole, offered the required motion to refer the rules to a special committee regarding the delegate vote.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will force the first substantive vote in the House in the 114th Congress on Tuesday, January 6, 2014, at approximately 1:45 p.m., on the District of Columbia's ability to vote in the Committee of the Whole on the House floor.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released Norton's remarks for the press conference today at 10:30 a.m. in Cannon 421 calling on House Republicans to restore the District of Columbia's vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole in the 114th Congress. Norton said, "The irony of the honor of becoming the nation's capital at the price of losing our democratic rights has been too bold to let stand."
Norton's remarks, as prepared, for delivery follow:
Statement of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
WASHINGTON, DC – Before the 114th Congress convenes, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has begun the fight to restore an equal citizenship right District of Columbia residents won, but was taken away by House Republicans in the 112th Congress. In her first public appearance in the Congress, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will join Norton at a press conference on Monday, January 5, at 10:30 a.m., in Cannon 421. Also speaking will be Kerwin Miller, a D.C. veteran, graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, chair of Norton's Service Academy Board, and former director of the D.C.
For herself and D.C. residents, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton offered her deepest sympathy to Anne Brooke on the passing of former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, the nation's first African American popularly elected senator. Senator Brooke, who was 95, grew up in LeDroit Park and attended Dunbar High School here in the District.
Reports on the cost to the District of Columbia of providing public safety at marches and demonstrations here on racial profiling in law enforcement nationwide have not noted that Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), at least since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, has secured annual federal payments for the costs to the city of emergency planning and security related to the presence of the nation's capital in D.C., where protests are often held, including $12.5 million for this fiscal year and any unexpended funds from prior fiscal years.