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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that four senators today introduced the companion to her bill to grant the District of Columbia statehood.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of Columbia Equal Representation Act and the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act, two bills that provide different approaches to congressional representation for the more than 600,000 residents of the District of Columbia.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold a Norton in Your Neighborhood Community Conversation with members of the AARP-DC Penn-Branch Chapter on breaking issues in Congress at noon on Monday, January 28, 2013, at the Pennsylvania Ave Baptist Church, 3000 Penn. Ave. SE.
Washington, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Representative Phil Gingrey (R-GA) yesterday reintroduced a resolution (H. RES. 40) expressing the sense of the House that active duty military personnel should be exempt from the gun laws of the District of Columbia, but not those of any other state or locality.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the District of Columbia Budget Autonomy Act of 2013, which would allow the District's local taxpayer-raised budget to take effect immediately after city approval, without requiring congressional approval.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will reintroduce her bill requiring the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) to comply with federal contracting regulations, which will now include a requirement that MWAA comply with federal anti-nepotism laws, when Congress returns next week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on the White House decision to put the District of Columbia "taxation without representation" license plates on all presidential limousines beginning this weekend.