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May 15, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – In light of today’s federal district court ruling upholding the District of Columbia’s gun registration requirements, which follows a federal appellate court ruling upholding D.C.’s ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) called on Representatives Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Phil Gingrey (R-GA) to withdraw support for bills they introduced this Congress to overturn D.C. gun laws.
May 14, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) spoke with National Park Service (NPS) Superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks Robert Vogel today following a temporary elevator breakdown in the Washington Monument, which was reopened earlier this week following repairs for earthquake damage.
May 13, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, today made the following statement on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s six-year, $265 billion surface transportation reauthorization bill, released earlier this week.
May 13, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) this week will look back on the history and impact of Brown v. Board of Education, the seminal Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools, leading up to its 60th anniversary on May 17.
May 9, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – No sooner was today’s House hearing on D.C.’s marijuana decriminalization bill over than Republican John Fleming (R-LA) told Roll Call that he intends to introduce a disapproval resolution to overturn the legislation.
May 8, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked the Democrats on the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Representatives (BLAG) – Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) – for declining to join an amicus brief filed today by BLAG that expresses the view of the House that the District of Columbia budget autonomy referendum, approved by 83% of D.C. voters in 2013, is invalid.
May 8, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement on a bill introduced by Senators Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) today to name Union Station “Harry S. Truman Union Station.”
May 7, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Following the subcommittee markup of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill today and last week’s release of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) four-year surface transportation reauthorization proposal, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit – the subcommittee tasked with writing a surface transportation reauthorization bill this year – issued the following statement.
May 7, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released Norton’s testimony in advance of tomorrow’s hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on Government Operations on legislation passed by the District of Columbia decriminalizing marijuana.
May 6, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that a bill to amend the Height Act, cosponsored by Norton and sponsored by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), passed the Senate today by unanimous consent.