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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued the following statement today marking the eleventh anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) was very pleased that the House today passed a bill, H.R. 6336, to move the District of Columbia's Frederick Douglass statue to the United States Capitol. The bill was introduced by Committee on House Administration Chairman Dan Lungren (R-CA) and co-sponsored by Norton. It is similar to a concurrent resolution, S. Con. Res. 49, introduced in June by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration, and Norton hopes the Senate will pass the bill shortly.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that fiscal year 2013 continuing resolution (CR) contains, at her request, a $9.8 million federal payment to the District of Columbia to cover the costs associated with the upcoming presidential inauguration. The CR, which the House is expected to vote on this week, would effectively extend federal spending at its current (fiscal year 2012) levels through March. If the CR had not included the $9.8 million federal payment, D.C.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House will vote later today on a bill, H.R. 6336, to move the District of Columbia's Frederick Douglass statue into the United States Capitol. The bill, proposed by Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA), chairman of the Committee on House Administration, and co-sponsored by Norton, is similar to a concurrent resolution, S. Con. Res. 49, introduced in June by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called on House and Senate leadership to include in the six-month fiscal year 2013 continuing resolution (CR), expected for a House vote later this week, a provision to ensure that the District of Columbia government does not face a shutdown threat later in the fiscal year that begins October 1. The Obama administration has recommended that the appropriators include a provision in the CR, based on a Norton bill, authorizing D.C. to spend its local funds for all of fiscal year 2013, and not just for the term of the CR.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that acoustic guitarist Dennis Ballard will perform at Lunchtime Music on the Mall on Tuesday, September 4, 2012, from noon to 1:30 p.m. on the National Mall near the Smithsonian Metro Station.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will join Ward 4 Council member Muriel Bowser, Rock Creek Park Superintendant Tara Morrison, and community members for the ribbon cutting of the newly installed lights at Sherman Circle NW (near Kansas Ave. NW and Illinois Ave. NW) tonight, August 29, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. Following the 2010 murder of Ward 4 resident and Catholic University student Neil Godleski in Sherman Circle, a National Park Service (NPS) park, Norton asked the NPS and the U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be on hand this evening, Tuesday,August 28, 2012, for her office's "Government to Go" constituent services office hours at the Safeway at 2845 Alabama Avenue, SE from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Norton's "Government to Go" brings her constituent services staff into neighborhoods in every ward, where they 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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) invites downtown federal and other office workers to help welcome violinist and D.C.'s Duke Ellington School for the Arts alumnus Raycurt Johnson to Lunchtime Music on the Mall on Tuesday, August 28, 2012, from noon to 1:30 p.m. on the National Mall near the Smithsonian Metro Station. Lunchtime Music on the Mall is sponsored by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and the National Park Service in conjunction with Norton's office.
Fresh from the battlefield known as the House of Representatives, where men outnumber women more than six to one, I take some comfort in knowing there are more women than men in this country – and more women who vote. The bunch of men who run the House have not used their majority to tame the banks or the corporations that gave us the Great Recession. Their energy has gone to blocking the President's jobs bills to bolster the economy and to turning on the women of our country -- from attacks on women's reproductive health to the refusal to support an equal pay bill.