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WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to press inquiries and reports, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she is working around the clock to protect the District of Columbia's right to home rule in the fiscal year 2015 omnibus spending bill, expected to be released on Monday. The House's version of the fiscal year 2015 D.C. appropriations bill contains three anti-home-rule riders – one from Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) to prohibit the District from using its local funds to decriminalize or legalize small amounts of marijuana, one from Rep.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton will speak at a rally for low-wage federal contract workers today, Thursday, December 4, at 9:00 a.m. outside of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum (Independence Ave SW and 6th Street NW). Norton will be joined by workers, other Members of Congress, and representatives from Good Jobs Nation, an organization dedicated to procuring livable wages for federal contract workers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was deeply saddened and shocked to learn of the death of a promising young District of Columbia resident, activist A.J. Cooper, who, at age 34, suddenly passed away from a heart attack earlier today. Norton said that she has spoken with Peggy Cooper Cafritz, her good friend and A.J.'s aunt, to express her condolences, and she sends her thoughts and prayers to the entire family and friends of A.J. Cooper.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), said she was very pleased by the Senate confirmation of Charlotte Burrows as a new EEOC Commissioner, as well as the confirmation of P. David Lopez for his second term as EEOC General Counsel. Norton met with both and later sent a letter of support to the Senate with Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she was pleased that the final fiscal year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), released yesterday, contains two wins for the District of Columbia: a provision that re-designates Pershing Park as the World War I Memorial, laying to rest any possible nationalization of D.C.'s War Memorial, and, for the third-straight year, does not contain Representative Phil Gingrey's (R-GA) anti-home-rule gun amendment.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that after her negotiations with the House and Senate Armed Services Committees she supports compromise language contained in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (NDAA), released last night, to dispose of the old Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Building and its attachments (Pathology Building) on the portion of the land at the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) site expected to go to the State Department, as requested by Children's National Medical Center.
A new generation of young people of every race is demonstrating nonviolently to make sure that the larger meaning of the Michael Brown tragedy is not lost.
His death has become much more than a moment of anguish. Michael Brown has crystallized the painful experience that had found no outlet until now: the routine stops of Black men by police in the streets of our country because of the color of their skin.
(Norton delivers a speech on the House floor about the Michael Brown tragedy - 12/1/14)
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a World AIDS Day event Monday, December 1, at 11:45 a.m. at the United Methodist Building in the District of Columbia (100 Maryland Avenue, NE).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will mark Small Business Saturday, a national day that celebrates small businesses in local communities, on Saturday, November 29, at 2:00 p.m. by visiting Nubian Hueman Boutique Lounge (1231 Good Hope Road SE). She will be accompanied by the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Maria Contreras-Sweet. Nubian Hueman is an ethic-centered art and fashion boutique in southeast District of Columbia. According to U.S.