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Jan 10, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the lottery drawing to determine recipients of the Congresswoman’s allotted tickets to attend the 58th Presidential Inauguration has been postponed. An updated date and time will be announced.
Jan 9, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that her office will hold a lottery drawing tomorrow, Tuesday, January 10, 2017, at 1:00 p.m., in 2136 Rayburn House Office Building, to determine recipients of the Congresswoman’s allotted tickets to attend the 58th Presidential Inauguration.
Jan 5, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” conversation in conjunction with Advisory Neighborhood Commission 1B this evening, Thursday, January 5, 2017, at 6:30 p.m., at the District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency (815 Florida Ave. NW).
Jan 5, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she hopes that signs posted this week, for the first time, at the entrance of congressional office buildings indicating that guns are prohibited in the Capitol Complex would end the hypocritical efforts by Republicans to eliminate the District of Columbia’s local gun safety laws while Congress takes extra efforts to ensure guns are barred from the Capitol Complex.
Jan 4, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) Director Leif Dormsjo asking DDOT to consider alternatives to the current plan of suspending all construction activities on roadways and sidewalks from Friday, January 13, 2017 through Tuesday, January 24, 2017.
Jan 3, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today forced the first legislative roll-call vote of the 115th Congress on her motion to restore the vote of the District of Columbia delegate on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole, upheld as constitutional by two federal courts.
Jan 3, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will force a vote on the House floor to restore the vote of District of Columbia delegate on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole today, Tuesday, January 3, 2017, at approximately 2:40 p.m.
Jan 3, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her statement ahead of a press conference today with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Office of Veterans Affairs Director Ely S. Ross calling on Congress to restore the D.C.’s delegate vote on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Jan 3, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC —Today, Members of Congress Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD), Don Beyer (D-VA), Gerry Connolly (D-VA), and John Delaney (D-MD) issued the following statement in opposition to the "Holman Rule" included in the proposed Rules package:
Jan 2, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In remarks at the District of Columbia Council swearing-in ceremony today at the Washington Convention Center, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer her outlook on what a Republican-controlled Congress and executive means for the District in 2017. She will also swear in Councilmember Robert White, who served in her congressional office from 2008-2013.

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