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WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak on the House floor tomorrow, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during consideration of a resolution (S.Con.Res.16) authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, to unveil the District of Columbia's Frederick Douglass statue. The House will take up the resolution, passed last week by the Senate, tomorrow mid-to-late afternoon under suspension of the rules.
I went to New York this week to accept a "Gloria Award" from Gloria Steinem, Letty Pogrebin and Pat Carbine, the founding mothers of the Ms. Foundation, as I serve in the Republican-led House, which couldn't less about women's concerns. This is all the more reason to be grateful to the Ms. Foundation for its determined focus on today's women.
(Congresswoman Norton's comments from the ceremony follow)
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Homes Norton (D-DC) made the following statement regarding the announcement today by Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) that he would amend his D.C. abortion ban bill (H.R. 1797), scheduled to be marked up next Thursday by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, to apply nationwide.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Alexandra Adams, a junior at the Maret School, has won the District of Columbia Congressional Art Competition with her charcoal drawing, which will hang in the United States Capitol building for one year, along with the winning pieces chosen from other congressional districts nationwide. The first place winner also received a partial scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, and a $300 scholarship from the D.C. Congressional Art Competition.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) on Wednesday introduced the second anti-choice bill, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7/S. 946),within the last month that infringes on the local authority of the District of Columbia.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked her colleagues in the Senate for passing a resolution yesterday authorizing the use of Emancipation Hall on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, to unveil the District of Columbia's Frederick Douglass statue, marking the first time that the District, like the states, will have its own statue in the Capitol. The resolution is expected on the House floor soon but does not need to be signed into law in order to take effect.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Shortly after Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) wrote today to Representative Franks (R-AZ), chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, requesting to testify at the subcommittee's hearing next Thursday on Franks' bill (H.R. 1797) that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy in the District of Columbia (with limited exceptions), but in no other jurisdiction, Franks granted Norton that courtesy. Despite being denied the courtesy to testify on the D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote to Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ), chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, requesting to testify at the subcommittee's hearing Thursday, May 23, 2013, on his bill (H.R. 1797) that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy in the District of Columbia (with limited exceptions), but in no other jurisdiction.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will announce the winners of the annual Congressional Art Competition during an awards ceremony for students, parents and teachers tomorrow, Thursday, May 16, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Ronald Regan Washington National Airport, in the historic lobby of terminal A.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the farm bill (Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2013) was passed yesterday by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry with her provision that enables the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) to receive federal funding for forestry research, under the McIntire-Stennis Act. Although UDC is the nation's only urban public land-grant university, until now, its college of agriculture has not been eligible for those funds. The inclusion of D.C.