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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, at 10:00 a.m., Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold a press conference at the D.C. War Memorial with D.C. veterans and officials, just before congressional debate and voting begins on a military strike on Syria, on the injustice that D.C.
WASHINGTON, DC – Just before the congressional debate on a military strike on Syria, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold a press conference at the D.C. War Memorial (900 Independence Avenue SW) (directly across from the MLK Memorial), with D.C. veterans on Monday, September 9 at 10:00 a.m.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that she was encouraged by her meeting yesterday with Secret Service Director Julia Pierson regarding the organizational breakdown at last Wednesday's 50th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) last week wrote a letter to National Park Service (NPS) Deputy Superintendent Gopaul Noojibail asking NPS to hold a public meeting in light of questions and concerns raised by D.C. residents about the proposed cleanup plan for Kenilworth Park.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday attended what she said was the only bicameral and bipartisan security briefing held since she became a member of Congress. She said that the briefing was very helpful, but that she needed more information in order to agree that D.C. residents should again go to war.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement on President Obama's remarks on Syria today.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today applauded Thursday's U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service ruling that legally married same-sex couples will be recognized for all federal tax programs, including income, gift and estate taxes.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote to Secret Service Director Julia Pierson requesting an immediate meeting following the organizational breakdown at yesterday's 50th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington on the National Mall.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who, as a law student, was on the staff of the 1963 March on Washington, and as a college student attended the 1957 March, will be at Wednesday's 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Wednesday with "the same focus on remedies" she saw brought to the marches when she was a young woman in the civil rights movement.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter to National Park Service (NPS) Director Jonathan Jarvis last week asking that NPS provide an alternative site near the Ellipse in President's Park where D.C. residents can hold recreational activities they had enjoyed until they were preempted without notice.