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May 8, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) spoke today at a Congressional Progressive Caucus press conference featuring low-wage D.C.


May 8, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) yesterday reintroduced a bill that would ban all abortions in the District of Columbia after 20 weeks (with limited exceptions).


May 7, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), will join low-wage District of Columbia residents, other low-wage workers from this region, CPC co-chairs Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Rep.


May 7, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reintroduced her Congress Leads By Example Act of 2013, during Public Service Recognition Week, to subject Congress and its agencies to health and safety standards and civil rights laws that currently apply to executive branch agencies and private sector employers, but not to Congress.


May 2, 2013
Blog

The air traffic controllers crisis, brought to us by the sequester cuts, offers both a warning of more like it to come and a pathway to a possible compromise. Congress solved the controllers crisis the easy way – by simply moving money from one account (the Airport Improvement Program) to pay the controllers.


May 1, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama today signed into law Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) District of Columbia Chief Financial Officer Vacancy Act, to clarify the authority of the Mayor of the District to fill a vacancy in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on an interim basis.


May 1, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement concerning the proposal by District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray to require undocumented immigrants who drive and reside in D.C. to get a driver's license.


April 30, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement regarding Jason Collins' announcement that he is gay, the first openly gay active male athlete in a major U.S. professional team sport.


April 29, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – Once again, Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ), who chairs the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, introduced a bill to ban all abortions in the District of Columbia after 20 weeks (with limited exceptions), just before leaving for recess on Friday.


April 26, 2013

The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that it received final sign off today on long-term plans to move Norton's main District office to 90 K St NE Suite 100 Washington, D.C., located at the corner of 1st and K NE, behind Union Station. The office will be open and operational starting Tuesday, April 30, at 9:00 a.m.