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June 27, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has learned that freshman Representative Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI) has been seeking cosponsors to a bill he has drafted, but not yet introduced, that would prohibit the District of Columbia, and no other jurisdiction, from using automated traffic enforcement systems, such as red light and speed cameras, which are used


June 26, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote the Chair and Vice Chair of the Joint Committee on the Library and the Architect of the Capitol calling on them to take action to depict the seal of the District of Columbia on the stained-glass windows in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, where the seals of the states are depicted.


June 26, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a member of the Supreme Court bar and a tenured Georgetown University law professor, issued the following statement on today's Supreme Court ruling in Windsor v. United States, which struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutional.


June 25, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued the following statement on today's Supreme Court Voting Rights Act ruling in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder.


June 25, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today issued the following statement extending her deepest condolences to the family of Angel Irene on his passing.


June 24, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who was chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission when the seminal affirmative action college admissions decision of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke was handed down, issued the following statement on today's Supreme Court ruling in Fisher v.


June 24, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Senior Legislative Day, hosted by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington (RAMW), in conjunction with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), at the African American Civil War Museum (1925 Vermont Ave. NW), today, June 24, 2013, from 10:00 a.m.


June 20, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, marking the four-year anniversary of the tragic June 22, 2009 Metro Red Line crash that killed Major General David F. Wherley, former Commanding General of the D.C. National Guard, his wife, Ann, and seven others, introduced the Major General David F.


June 19, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – As the House began debate on the farm bill today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) joined as a cosponsor of Representative James McGovern's (D-MA) amendment to restore the $20.5 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, in the House Republican's proposed farm bill.


June 19, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) for his forceful and unequivocal call for Congress to grant the District of Columbia statehood during his remarks at today's unveiling of D.C.'s Frederick Douglass statue in the U.S. Capitol.