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February 18, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Destination DC, the official convention and tourism corporation for the District of Columbia, in conjunction with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), will welcome members of the House and Senate and congressional staff to the annual “Ask Me About D.C.”
February 18, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that on Thursday, February 20, 2014, from 10:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., Norton will kick off the first of regular tours for D.C. residents led by the Congresswoman and her staff of the floor of the House of Representatives and of statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Park in Statuary Hall, and of D.C.’s Frederick Douglass statue and the Sojourner Truth statue in Emancipation Hall.
February 15, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that 120 D.C. residents had their taxes prepared for free at the Congresswoman’s annual Tax and Financial Services Fair, notwithstanding the rain and snow that came this morning.
February 14, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Upon returning from the House Democratic Caucus retreat in Cambridge, Maryland today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was very proud of Ari Goldman, a 32-year-old D.C. resident who spoke at the retreat this morning about his positive experience obtaining quality, affordable health care coverage through D.C. Health Link, with the help of a free broker.
February 14, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The snow has been cleared and the little that may come Saturday morning will not stop Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) annual free Tax and Financial Services Fair tomorrow, Saturday, February 15, 2014, from 10 a.m. – noon at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (801 Mt. Vernon Place NW).
February 13, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – At a press conference on Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 11:00 a.m., during her free Tax and Financial Services Fair, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be joined by Solomon Keene, President of the Hotel Association of Washington, D.C., and Teresa Hinze, Executive Director of Community Tax Aid.
February 12, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – With Frederick Douglass’s February 14 birthday approaching, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday introduced a bill to establish a Bicentennial Commission to study ways that the federal government might honor and celebrate the life of Douglass during the bicentennial anniversary of his birth, in 2018.
February 11, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that a press conference will kick off Norton’s annual free Tax and Financial Services Fair on Saturday, February 15, 2014, at 10 a.m., at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (801 Mt. Vernon Place NW).
February 6, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement upon learning that Medric “Cecil” Mills, a D.C. resident who passed away last week, was a classmate at Dunbar High School.
February 6, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Following the District of Columbia Council’s preliminary approval of the D.C. Promise bill Tuesday, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote to President Obama to reiterate her earlier request that he provide $35.1 million for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG) in his fiscal year 2015 budget, as he did in fiscal year 2014.