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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the House Judiciary Committee’s passage of H.R. 7, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Committee, for offering an amendment at today’s committee markup of the bill to strike a provision that would permanently ban D.C. from spending its own local funds on abortion services for low-income women, and would define D.C. as part of the federal government for purposes of abortion.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today made the following statement on Congressman Jim Moran’s (D-VA) announcement that he will not seek reelection in 2014.

WASHINGTON, DC – Tomorrow, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a member of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, will speak at a press conference in advance of the markup of H.R. 7.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) expressed “tremendous relief” with the House-Senate appropriations deal, or the fiscal year 2014 omnibus appropriations bill, which funds many of the Congresswoman’s top priorities and is an enormous plus for the District of Columbia, given the austere original House spending bills.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that the fiscal year 2014 omnibus appropriations bill released yesterday evening contains a historic and unprecedented District of Columbia shutdown-avoidance provision, allowing the city to spend its local funds and remain open in the event of a federal government shutdown in fiscal year 2015.

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that she will attend tomorrow’s House Judiciary Committee markup of an abortion bill that contains a provision specifically targeting the District of Columbia, on which she was denied the usual courtesy to testify at a hearing by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), chair of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Senate today confirmed Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) first recommendation, in 2010, to President Obama for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Robert Wilkins, for a promotion to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit Court).

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) first recommendation, in 2010, to President Obama for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Robert Wilkins, today got one critical step forward to a promotion to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit Court). President Obama nominated him last year to be elevated from the district court to the D.C. Circuit Court, widely regarded as the second most powerful court in the United States.