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December 5, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Homes Norton, who was a leader in the Free South African movement before being elected to Congress, was in South African on the day that Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and met him when he became president of his country, today released the following statement upon learning of his death.
December 5, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today wrote Representative Tom Petri (R-WI), Chairman or the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, requesting a subcommittee hearing on the CSX Virginia Avenue Tunnel Project.
December 5, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday sent a letter to District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson requesting that they engage with other city leaders in discussions in order to reach a consensus on whether there should be changes in building height limitations in the District, and if so, how such changes should be accomplished, in light of active interest in Congress in updating the Height Act.
December 5, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), at a rally with workers at the McDonald's located at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, will call on President Obama to act on a major speech he delivered at the Arts Recreation Campus in Ward 8 yesterday by issuing an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay a livable wage.
Norton Appoints New Member to her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission, Shirley Ann Higuchi
December 4, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today appointed Shirley Ann Higuchi, president of the District of Columbia Bar from 2003 to 2004, to her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission, which screens and recommends candidates from whom Norton chooses to send to the President as her recommendation for important federal law enforcement positions in D.C.
December 2, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – At a hearing today on a federal law that regulates the height of buildings throughout the District of Columbia, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) called on Mayor Vincent Gray and Council Chair Phil Mendelson to reach a consensus on whether there should be changes in building height limitations in the District, and if so, how they should be accomplished, rather than waiting for Congress to intervene in a home-rule decision.
November 26, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Following this weekend’s tragic murder of U.S. Postal Service (USPS) letter carrier Tyson Jerome Barnette in Landover, Maryland, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and a member of the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S Postal Service and the Census, wrote today to the U.S. Postmaster General regarding long-standing concerns about the risk of requiring postal employees to deliver mail after dark and requesting responses to several related questions within 30 days.
November 26, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will begin Thanksgiving this week with events to honor military families and to help provide food, health care and clothing to D.C. families in need.
November 25, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that her Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission is accepting applications for an upcoming opening on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
November 22, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the DC Health Link Open Enrollment Day event tomorrow, Saturday, November 23, 2013, at 12:00 p.m., at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library (901 G St. NW). The event will enable District residents, small business owners and their employees to learn more about DC Health Link and to enroll in health insurance plans that meet their needs, with trained experts on site to assist with the enrollment process.