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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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter on Friday to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee Chairman Richard Durbin (D-IL) asking that a possible fiscal year 2013 omnibus appropriations bill include a provision that would prevent the District of Columbia government from shutting down if the federal government shuts down.
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. flag and the flags of the territories any time the flags of the 50 states are displayed, as negotiations begin on the final bill.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at her office's "Government to Go" program at Emmanus Services for the Aging at 1426 9th Street NW on Friday, December 7, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. Norton's "Government to Go" program brings her constituent services staff into neighborhoods in every ward to offer District residents assistance and advice on a range of federal benefits and issues, from Social Security and veterans' benefits, to Norton's D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant program.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked the D.C. Council for passing a law banning synthetic marijuana, or K2, on Tuesday, the same day she visited a protest in front of an Exxon station near Springarn High School in Northeast, and got an agreement from the gas station's manager to stop selling the drug. Norton said that the Council's passage of the K2 ban removes any doubt – or excuse – about selling the drug.
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that 60 D.C. small businesses have won subcontracts for work on federal construction projects around the city, including some that have contracts on multiple projects. She said D.C. small businesses are clearly benefitting from the significant federal construction underway in the District. However, Norton, who collects and reports monthly the number of D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was pleased that the Senate today passed a fiscal year 2013 Defense Authorization bill without the non-binding provision included in the House-passed version that expressed the sense of the Congress that active duty members of the military, in their private capacities, should be exempt from the District of Columbia's gun laws. Norton also said that she hopes she will still be able to get a provision into the final bill that would require the armed services to display the D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – During a community protest at an Exxon station located at 2652 Benning Rd. NE (between Anacostia Ave. and Oklahoma Ave. NE),and across from Spingarn High School, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) walked over to the business, owned by Mohammad B. Arif, and spoke with the manager, Malik, and got from him a promise to cease selling synthetic marijuana, also known as K2, in any form, and to discard what he had on hand.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on Rep. Jo Ann Emerson's (R-MO) decision to retire.
When you attend a military ceremony, you see no difference among the service members in attendance except for rank. However, across the services, except for the Army, displaying the flag of the District of Columbia and the five territories to honor service members, veterans, and their families is "encouraged" but is left to the "discretion" of the commander whether the flags of the states are displayed.