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September 11, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called on District of Columbia residents to remember the children, teachers, and others lost in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.


September 10, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As a lead up to the District of Columbia statehood hearing in the Senate on Monday, September 15, the Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton's D.C.


September 10, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a ribbon cutting ceremony for the re-opening of Dance Place, a performing arts facility in the Brookland neighborhood of Northeast, D.C., today at 4:30 p.m. at 3225 8th Street NE. The building space has been under construction since fall of last year.


September 10, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that Norton was successful in keeping out the House-passed provisions prohibiting the District of Columbia from enforcing its own gun safety laws and from decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana from the fiscal year 2015 short-term continuing resolution (CR) released by the House yesterday.


September 8, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced a National Mall Roundtable for Thursday, September 18th from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.


September 8, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that Senator Thomas Carper's (D-DE) announcement of the first District of Columbia statehood hearing in more than two decades highlights "a season of unusual progress for D.C.


September 4, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) strongly supported Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement today that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will begin a civil rights investigation to determine whether Ferguson, Missouri Police Department routinely engaged in racial profiling or used excessive police force, following the death of Michael Brown.


August 21, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the U.S.


August 20, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today she expects the historic Carter G. Woodson Home to be completed by August 2015 with federal funds she requested, and that a National Park Service (NPS) partnership with a non-profit organization (NPO) will complete the two adjoining homes.


August 19, 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced the speakers for the workshops at her annual Job Fair on Thursday, August 21, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Washington Convention Center (800 Mount Vernon Place NW – between 7th and 9th Streets NW). Almost 100 employers with available jobs are expected.