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WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who last week cited committee rules in an attempt to hear testimony from the proposed Democratic witness at a contraceptive hearing, will get to hear that witness tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will attend the groundbreaking of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which culminated from a bill that she began co-sponsoring more than 20 years ago when she first came to Congress. The groundbreaking, which will be attended by President Barack Obama, takes place today, February 22, 2012, at 10 a.m. at Madison Drive, NW between 14th and 15th Streets, NW.
WASHINGTON, DC – At a press conference today with D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray and others, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued a statement pledging resistance against the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R.3803/S.2103), introduced by Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), which deprives the women who live in the District of Columbia of their constitutional rights to reproductive freedom. The Congresswoman's statement and a Dear Colleague letter to House Democrats follow:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the arrest by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Capitol Police of a man who reportedly attempted to carry out a suicide attack on the Capitol:
WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that District of Columbia resident Christy Zink, who had an abortion at 21 weeks and five days after doctors found a cyst on the brain of the fetus and a follow-up MRI revealed severe fetal anomalies of the brain, will be featured at a press conference on Tuesday, February 21, at 10 a.m. in 2203 Rayburn House Office Building to oppose the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R.3803/S.2103). She will be joined by Norton, D.C. Mayor Vincent C.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer four amendments on the House floor this week to the surface transportation bill, H.R. 7 (the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 2012). Norton opposes the very partisan underlying bill, which guts mass transit and highway investments, and undercuts Amtrak workers. However, she will offer amendments that focus on some of her transportation-related priorities, including mass transit tax benefits, construction training, and the closure of E Street near the White House.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the President's fiscal year 2013 budget, released today, "funds our top priorities in an especially difficult budget year," and that she was grateful that "the District of Columbia does remarkably well under the proposed budget."
The press reporters a serious Republican split with only a 50/50 chance that Republicans can get their members to agree on a payroll tax deal. Line that 50/50 Republican split up against their near-unanimous opposition to having wealthy and corporate taxpayers contribute one dime to deficit reduction.
I'll leave it to the Republican leadership to reconcile these issues – and their caucus. Meanwhile, the clock ticks louder each day. Republicans have 20 days to make up their minds on whether every worker who draws a paycheck deserves a tax cut.