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April 17, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement on today’s announcement that the District of Columbia Council has filed suit against the D.C. Mayor and Chief Financial Officer seeking a court order that the budget autonomy referendum approved by D.C. voters in 2013 is valid and compelling enforcement.
April 17, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will participate in a panel discussion marking the 40th Anniversary of the Home Rule Act today, April 17, 2014, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at the National Archives (7th St. and Constitution Ave. NW).
April 15, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called on D.C. to declare April 15, the deadline for Americans to pay federal income taxes, ‘D.C. Taxation without Representation Day.’
April 11, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), following a series of House floor speeches this week demanding statehood for the residents of the District of Columbia, today called on D.C. residents to continue the fight for statehood.
April 11, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will march in the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade tomorrow, Saturday, April 12, 2014, beginning at 10:00 a.m., at the intersection of 7th St. and Independence Ave NW.
April 10, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who has appeared on the Colbert Report so often that host Stephen Colbert called her his “nemesis,” made the following statement following the announcement today that Colbert will replace David Letterman on the Late Show.
April 10, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that, in a significant boost for District of Columbia home rule, Senator Mark Begich (D-AK), the chair of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over D.C., today introduced companion bills to Norton’s budget autonomy and legislative autonomy bills.
April 10, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – In advance of the April 14 birthday of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, a freedom fighter for the Dalit people, the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton will introduce a resolution when Congress returns from recess condemning Dalit untouchability, the practice of birth-descent discrimination against Dalit people, which is still widely practiced in India, Nepal, the Asian diaspora and other South Asian nations, and calling on these countries to recognize the human rights of the Dalit people and end all forms of untouchability within their borders.
April 10, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), in advance of D.C. Emancipation Day, April 16, today, around 12:00 p.m., will make her third and final House floor speech of the week to call for statehood for the nearly 650,000 residents of the District of Columbia.
April 9, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today got a commitment from the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair, Bill Shuster (R-PA), and the Ranking Member, Nick Rahall (D-WV), to advance a provision to require the collection of data on sexual assaults that occur on airplanes, and therefore did not offer her bill, the “Protecting Airline Passengers from Sexual Assaults Act of 2014,” as an amendment to H.R. 4156, the Transparent Airfares Act, at the committee markup.