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December 14, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on the decision of United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice to withdraw her name from consideration for Secretary of State.


December 13, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the House passed by voice vote her D.C. Courts and Public Defender Service Act (S.1379) and is expected to get the President's signature. The non-controversial but important bill passed the Senate in July, where it was sponsored by Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI).


December 12, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House today passed by voice vote a bill (H.R. 6364) that Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) co-sponsored to preserve the District of Columbia War Memorial for D.C.


December 12, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will introduce Ketanji Brown Jackson at her confirmation hearing to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, at 10:00 a.m.


December 12, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced the House will vote on a bill (H.R. 6364) tomorrow that Norton co-sponsored to preserve the District of Columbia War Memorial for D.C. veterans only, re-designate the Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri as the "National World War I Museum and Memorial," and establish a site on federal land in D.C.


December 11, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) is pursuing additional tickets for District residents to attend the 2013 inauguration of President Barack Obama, beyond the less than 200 allocated to each member of Congress. So far, Norton's office has received well over 2,500 requests for inauguration tickets.


December 10, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) called Harry Hopper, the Chairman of the Board of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, to thank him for the decision announced today to keep the Corcoran in the District of Columbia. She has released the following statement on the board's decision.


December 7, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the letter she and the other delegates sent to the House and Senate Armed Services committee chairs and ranking members, calling on them to include in the final fiscal year 2013 Defense Authorization bill a House-passed provision that would require the armed services to display the D.C.