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October 12, 2011
October 7, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued the following statement celebrating the life of her friend Professor Derrick Bell:
October 6, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on the passing of civil rights leader, Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth:
D.C. Statue Bill Moving in House
October 6, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) called House Administration Committee Chairman Daniel Lungren (R-CA) yesterday evening to thank him for introducing a bill (H.R. 3106) to permit the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories to have one statue each in the U.S. Capitol. Norton, an original cosponsor of the bill, said she expects the bill to pass the House, as it did last Congress.
October 4, 2011
October 3, 2011
October 1, 2011
What was President Obama really saying to us at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner last weekend? He offered a lot of his vintage hope and a little tough love, but most of the speech was the mix of inspiration and substance that Democrats relish. Nearing the end of his first term, the President even loosened up enough to give the "B" word, bringing the audience to its feet. But it was his tough-love lines that caught the media's attention.
October 1, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today applauded news reports that the administration has decided to use authority granted to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the August FAA extension bill to pay employees who were furloughed for two weeks during the congressional standoff. Norton argued in an August 18 press release that the text of the House bill, ultimately passed by the Senate, in fact authorized paying furloughed FAA employees, without need for a new bill providing for back pay.