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WASHINGTON, DC – Following a House hearing that touched on sequester cuts to federal police earlier this week, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will meet separately with federal police officials and union leaders regarding the sequester's impact on the federal police workforce and resources in the District of Columbia, in light of Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act of 2013, to require the United States to negotiate an international agreement to disable and dismantle its nuclear weapons by 2020 and to redirect the funds to human and infrastructure needs, such as housing, health care, Social Security and the environment.
WASHINGTON, DC – Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ), who chairs the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, indicated to the press yesterday that he will re-introduce his bill that would ban all abortions in the District of Columbia after 20 weeks, with limited exceptions. Last Congress, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), her pro-choice congressional allies, and a coalition of 100 national and local organizations defeated the bill in a vote on the House floor.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), at a House hearing today on the effects of sequestration, said that following yesterday's tragedy in Boston, the U.S. Park Police, the Federal Protective Service and other federal police have been put in the agonizing position of protecting visitors and residents in the nation's capital while maintaining an open, free-flowing city at the height of the tourist season despite the across-the-board sequester cuts to police services.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued the following Tax Day statement today, the deadline for Americans to pay federal taxes on their income.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a regular guest on PBS's "To The Contrary," will appear on the show at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 14. The show will also air at various times nationally throughout the week. Norton will debate whether a very radical version of feminist activism is hurting or helping Muslim women, the passing of the controversial Margaret Thatcher, and a new program from the organization Count Me In to help female veterans and military spouses achieve economic independence.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) for introducing the Senate companion bill to her Rachel Carson Nature Trail Designation Act of 2013, commemorating Rachel Carson, the environmental pioneer and an inspiration for the development of the environmental movement.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that the President's fiscal year 2014 budget funds Norton's top priorities for the District of Columbia, but contravenes the purpose of the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant program (DCTAG) by imposing new means testing.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4C (serving the Brightwood, Crestwood, Petworth and 16th Street Heights neighborhoods), in conjunction with Norton, will host a "Norton In Your Neighborhood" community conversation today, Wednesday, April 10, 2013, from 6:30 – 9:00 p.m., at the Petworth Library (4200 Kansas Ave. NW). Norton will discuss issues affecting D.C.
WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that President Obama's fiscal year 2014 budget includes, at Norton's request, a legislative provision that would give the District of Columbia budget autonomy, or the permanent authority to spend its local funds without congressional approval and to set its own fiscal year. While President Obama has included narrative statements in his prior budgets supporting budget autonomy, as did President George W. Bush, no president had ever included a budget autonomy legislative provision in his budget.