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June 26, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to provide the District of Columbia Courts (D.C. Courts) and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) with the same authority that federal courts and federal agencies have to offer voluntary separation incentive payments, or buyouts, to their employees.


June 25, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will receive the Pillar of Justice Legacy Award at the 2014 A. Leon Higginbotham Corporate Leadership Award Dinner in New York City on Thursday, June 26, 2014. The dinner is part of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law's 2014 A.


June 25, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) vowed to continue the fight to protect D.C.'s home rule after the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment, sponsored by Representative Andy Harris (R-MD), to the fiscal year 2015 District of Columbia Appropriations bill that blocks the District from decriminalizing marijuana.


June 25, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC – As Stephen Colbert winds down The Colbert Report over the next few months, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will make another appearance on The Colbert Report tonight,Wednesday, June 25, 2014.


June 24, 2014

Washington, DC -- The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Representative Andy Harris (R-MD), a second-term tea party supporter, confirmed today to Roll Call that he will offer an amendment to the fiscal year 2015 District of Columbia Appropriations bill tomorrow to try to block D.C.'s marijuana decriminalization bill. Norton warned D.C.


June 24, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was relieved, even elated, that the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government's fiscal year 2015 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, approved today, meets the congresswoman's priorities, especially full funding for the D.C.


June 24, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote to the Secretary of the U.S.


June 24, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) was informed today that Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee are considering offering an amendment to the District of Columbia Appropriations bill on Wednesday to block the District from implementing its local marijuana decriminalization bill.

June 24, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, will participate in a demonstration ride in Carnegie Mellon University’s autonomous vehicle adjacent to the U.S. Capitol at Maryland Avenue SW, between the U.S. Botanic Garden and the U.S. Capitol Reflecting Pool, today at 1:30 p.m.

June 23, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that dynamic West African musician and vocalist, and 2013-2014 Strathmore Artist-in-Residence, Amadou Kouyate will perform at Lunchtime Music on the Mall on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, from noon to 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, by the Smithsonian Metro Station, at 12th St. and Jefferson Dr. SW.