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Washington DC – At a Saturday press conference at 11:00 a.m. overlooking the D.C. Tax and Financial Services Fair, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and local IRS-certified tax preparers will explain their efforts to assure that no resident who cannot afford it has to go to a commercial tax preparer. Saturday morning's free tax service is available only to D.C. residents. The annual Norton tax fair at the Washington Convention Center, 10 a.m.-noon this year features free tax preparers from volunteer IRS (VITA) sites throughout the city.
Cardiss Collins was the only African American woman in Congress when two other black women and I were elected in 1990. By the time she retired, after a quarter of a century representing a Chicago district, I understood why Cardiss had been able to hold the fort after the few African American women in the House had dwindled to only her. Cardiss Collins was a champion of women and African Americans everywhere, whose work was productive in areas of American life and is still being felt in our country.
Published: February 8, 2013
Washington D.C. -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and neighborhood IRS-certified tax preparers, who will prepare taxes free of charge for D.C. residents at Norton's annual Tax & Financial Services Fair, will hold a press conference at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 9, 2013. The annual Tax Fair will be from 10 a.m. – noon at the Washington Convention Center, and is open to D.C. residents only.
Washington, DC—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that Norton will host a Black History Month event for D.C. residents celebrating the upcoming move of the District of Columbia's Frederick Douglass statue to the U.S. Capitol, following the enactment of her bill to place the first-ever D.C. statue there, on Monday, February 4, 2013, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the lobby of One Judiciary Square (441 4th Street NW),where the statue is displayed. The speakers are D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray; D.C.
The great majority of Americans now want to move our country from the outskirts of civilization into the civilized world of nations that protect their children from assault weapons, limit the number of bullets that magazines can hold, perform background checks for every gun purchase, and routinely cover mental health in insurance plans. After our sadness and disgust, after our depression and despondency at the assassination of 26 kids and teachers, we are all culpable if we do not act this time. We did not act after 13 died in the mass shooting in Columbine in 1999.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak today at the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters at 2100 2nd Street SW, at 1:00 p.m. for the agency's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day program, part of her effort and that of the Coast Guard to transition the Coast Guard to its new home in Ward 8 later this year.