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WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that Norton would introduce legislation when Congress returns from recess next week to subject the salaries of members of Congress to any future sequestration, or automatic, across-the-board spending cuts.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that D.C. residents will be among the first Americans to benefit if the Supreme Court rules that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional.
The District of Columbia, along with nine states, did not wait for the Supreme Court to do the right thing. We passed our own marriage equality law in 2009. Yet some would use D.C. and the handful of marriage equality states against the majority of LGBT Americans to counsel a go-slow approach to recognizing the fundamental right to marry.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called Ketanji Brown Jackson to congratulate her on her confirmation by the Senate to become a U.S. district court judge in the District of Columbia. Jackson, who is currently Vice Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, now becomes the first African American woman appointed to the district court in D.C.
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a rally at the Supreme Court promenade in defense of marriage equality on Tuesday, March 26, at 9:30 a.m. The first of two marriage equality cases to be heard this week, Hollingsworth v.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wrote today to all the colleges and universities with D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant program (DCTAG) students, and urged them to issue no late payment notices or penalties to DCTAG students due to congressional delay. "This delay is entirely attributable to the Congress, not the students," Norton wrote.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to all Senators urging them to vote against an amendment Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) filed today to the Senate's budget resolution (S.Con.Res.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus' immigration reform task force, issued a statement in solidarity with and in support of comprehensive immigration reform that includes Black immigrants, who came to the Capitol today to make sure that they were included in any pending immigration bill.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the D.C.