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April 5, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) today issued a proposed rule to implement Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) recently enacted Hatch Act National Capital Region Parity Act, which, for the first time, authorizes OPM to permit federal employees who live in the District of Columbia to run for partisan political office in local D.C.


April 4, 2013
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Today is April 4th, the day that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 45 years ago. It is a sign that we are still living in the King era, that unlike other great figures in our history, his death is noted in addition to his birth in January.


April 3, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Navy Seaman Jonathan Rucker, home on leave from Japan, and his mother, met with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today. They discussed how one family helped change federal law to recognize the District of Columbia's flag and D.C.'s servicemembers and veterans. CSSN Rucker, a D.C.


April 2, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that U.S. Navy Seaman Jonathon Rucker, a D.C.


April 2, 2013

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.


March 27, 2013

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.


March 26, 2013
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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.


March 26, 2013

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.


March 25, 2013

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.