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...Rep. Barbara Lee, D- Calif., left, and members of the CBC , from third from left, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., and Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., applaued during the unveiling of the portrait of the late New York Rep. Shirley...
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NorthJersey.com
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...Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), then the Senate majority leader, staged a filibuster. As such, the powers of D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton remained limited, as by law she can only sit on committees, participate in floor debates and introduce legislation. Will...
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Daily Princetonian
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/03/02/22938/
Senator Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and...
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...Management Agency for failing to release $3.4 billion for hurricane recovery public works projects in Louisiana. U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-District of Columbia, pointed to more than 4,000 projects by local governments or institutions that are either...
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2TheAdvocate.com
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/politics/40334472.html
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) are promising passage of the DC Voting Rights Act that Hoyer says will be voted on next week.
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...love the playful conflict between “Stephen Colbert” and Eleanor Holmes Norton, and I couldn’t be happier about the fact that they seem to love it just as well. Here’s a short video from Politico in which she thanks Stephen for bringing the issue to the rest...
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No Fact Zone
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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) has long been fighting for voting rights for D.C. residents and fighting with "Comedy Central" star Stephen Colbert, who regularly skewers her sarcastically on "The Colbert Report" about whether D.C. deserves the
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The Politico
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...Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) has long been fighting for voting rights for D.C. residents and fighting with "Comedy Central" star Stephen Colbert, who regularly skewers her sarcastically on "The Colbert Report" about whether D.C. deserves the vote. POLITICO...
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The Politico
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19330.html
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...is long enough. At the start of the 111th Congress, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) along with Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) introduced the D.C. House Voting Rights Act of 2009, H.R. 157. The legislation is identical to that which...
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New America Media
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...marked the first congressional hearing in 2009 for the legislation, reintroduced earlier this month by Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat and the District's nonvoting House member, and there was fervent discussion from both sides of the issue. "Today,...
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Renew America
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/28/hill-vote-for-dc-faces-court-fight-foes-warn/
This video features three clips I recorded and the 6pm coverage...
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...president, black leaders are ready to see how he will address chronic issues that affect their communities. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009. / U.S. President-elect Barack Obama speaks in...
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ABC News
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Recorded on January 17, 2009 using a Flip Video camcorder.
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...Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said a House Judiciary subcommittee will hold its first hearing on the bill Jan. 27, starting the House passage process. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), who co-sponsored the measure in the Senate, said in a statement that...
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The Washington Post
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...M. Fenty (D) endorsed Obama in July 2007, he said Obama had pledged to support full representation for the city. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) has reintroduced a bill that would give the largely Democratic District a House seat and one additional seat...
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The Washington Post
http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/index_xml/~3/g4Wd9jjQe84/AR2009011504148.html
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...(AP) -- DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton says she has received an additional 600 tickets for residents to attend the inauguration. Norton held a drawing Wednesday to select the winners from a list of about 10,000 people who called her office seeking tickets...
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WUSA Washington, DC
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...sending a message that we’re all moving together on this groundbreaking issue. Blade: Have you heard anything about Eleanor Holmes Norton saying she wants the Council to hold off on this until Congress approves the pending legislation to give her a full vote...
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Washington Blade
http://washblade.com/2009/1-9/news/localnews/13884.cfm
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...the moment, D.C. has a nonvoting representative in the House, Eleanor Holmes Norton (perhaps best known to a national audience for her excellent jousts with Stephen Colbert). In a 2007 compromise, D.C. would have gotten a representative as would the very Republican...
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U.S. News & World Report
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2009/1/6/dc-voting-rights-should-happen-in-2009.html?s_cid=rss:robert-schlesinger:dc-voting-rights-should-happen-in-2009
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...(AP) D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton says she wants a hearing on airline practices after nine Muslims were booted off an AirTran Airways flight on New Year's Day. The passengers were removed after other travelers reported hearing a suspicious remark about...
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USA Today
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...(AP) - D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton says she wants a hearing on airline practices after nine Muslims were booted off an AirTran Airways flight on New Year's Day. The passengers were removed after other travelers reported hearing a suspicious remark about...
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WBAY-TV
http://www.wbay.com/global/story.asp?s=9611965
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...left without representation in the people's House by the time you had your first African-American in the White House," said Eleanor Holmes Norton, the district's elected delegate to Congress who is allowed to vote in committee and on some procedural matters,...
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/12/31/with_obama_dc_residents_hope_for_a_voice?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news
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...the content that you post. IN PUSHING congressional leaders for early action on voting rights for the District, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) says she's mindful of the "unprecedented issues" facing the new Congress. Nonetheless, she wonders: Wouldn't...
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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/26/AR2008122601557.html?nav=rss_opinions
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...guns to Obama’s Jan. 20 inauguration, which will be held on two miles of National Park land – the National Mall. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and gun control groups are concerned that some visitors attending President-elect Obama’s inauguration may...
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The Hill
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Access United was on the scene as D.C. United helped Congresswoman...
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...Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) wants Congress to give the District an additional $15 million for the expense of hosting the inauguration. So far, D.C. has received $15 million and is digging deep into its pockets to pay for the added security and planning...
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Roll Call
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...DC's most memorable moment of 2008? Washington, D.C. -- D.C. United announced it will once again support Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's Annual Capitol Hill Holiday Party for D.C.'s disadvantaged youth. This is the fourth year in a row in which the club...
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MLSnet - Major League Soccer
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...DC's most memorable moment of 2008? Washington, D.C. -- D.C. United announced it will once again support Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's Annual Capitol Hill Holiday Party for D.C.'s disadvantaged youth. This is the fourth year in a row in which the club...
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MLSnet - Major League Soccer
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Economy expert Alice Rivlin speaks at a town hall meeting hosted...
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...Holmes Norton, the District's nonvoting Democratic delegate to Congress, speculated that the Supreme Court is considering appeals that challenge Mr. Obama's citizenship only long enough to reject them "and lay to rest manufactured doubts about the legitimacy...
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Renew America
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/10/justices-to-mull-obama-citizenship-again/
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...people of the District of Columbia the equal voting rights they have been denied for more than 200 years," wrote Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., Washington's nonvoting delegate in Congress. She wrote to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday to ask for a Feb....
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Deseret News
http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705268636,00.html
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...Scholarship Program (OSP) continue to have a choice of schools like the Obamas? If Obama, the Democrats, and Eleanor Holmes Norton (Delegate to Congress from D.C.), have their way, the answer will be “no.” Why? President Obama, Holmes Norton, and the Democrats...
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FrontPage Magazine
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=345C90FC-B8FB-4891-89ED-FD3EA7CFF94B
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...has plenty of experience hosting the inauguration, and it cherishes being the seat of the federal government,” said Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington’s Congressional delegate. “But it doesn’t come cheap.” The expense comes as the city announced $130 million...
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/washington/30district.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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...only way to achieve a holistic plan for the entire basin is to take a piece of it and test it for results," Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said in a statement. In 2005, Norton introduced a bill that arranged for the Army Corps of Engineers to oversee...
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The Washington Post
http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/index_xml/~3/j2wONvPHbTU/AR2008112802538.html
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...Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), a vocal advocate of public education, defended the Obamas’ choice. “That is for him and his own family,” she said. “I don’t see any public aspect to this decision of where your children should go to school.” Well, Del. Holmes...
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Right Angles
http://triangle.johnlocke.org/blog/?p=3091
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...able to finish it during my sabbatical.” WASHINGTON | With the recent election of President-elect Barack Obama, Eleanor Holmes Norton, the delegate for the District of Columbia, predicts that the passage of the D.C. Voting Rights Act will occur sometime...
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KansasCity.com
http://www.kansascity.com/news/columnists/steve_penn/story/903500.html
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...watch the inauguration and parade, park service spokesman David Barna said Thursday. The District of Columbia's delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, is urging planners to use arenas and stadiums to help with overflow crowds wanting to view the ceremonies on big-screen...
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Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1859171,00.html?xid=rss-mostpopular
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...the inauguration and parade, park service spokesman David Barna said Thursday. The District of Columbia's delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, is urging planners to use arenas and stadiums to help with overflow crowds wanting to view the ceremonies on big-screen...
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KFMB
http://www.kfmb.com/story.php?id=146250
During one of several hearings on the economic crisis, Norton asks...
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...to come on his show. ("Your teenage kids will like you, briefly.") But not before he turned on his foremost foe, Eleanor Holmes Norton. He didn't spare her. He suggested new slogans for the District: "American Samoa, With Urban Blight" and "Guam You Can Drive...
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DCist
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...Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Delegate to the U.S. Congress Eleanor Holmes Norton and comedian Stephen Colbert jokingly criticized one another at a Washington fundraiser. They appeared on stage together at the 20th Annual Roast for Spina Bifida Friday night and immediately...
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United Press International
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/11/15/Colbert_Norton_square_off_at_event/UPI-97241226778586/
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...The District of Columbia's delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, is urging planners to use arenas and stadiums to help with overflow crowds wanting to view the ceremonies on big-screen TVs. She is also urging churches to hold viewing parties. "You can't judge by...
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Bradenton Herald
http://www.bradenton.com/presidential_election/story/1031016.html
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...watch the inauguration and parade, park service spokesman David Barna said Thursday. The District of Columbia's delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, is urging planners to use arenas and stadiums to help with overflow crowds wanting to view the ceremonies on big-screen...
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Boston Globe
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...this will be a friendly affair, we then had to ask who he’s most looking forward to hearing from. “I’m a big fan of Eleanor Holmes Norton.” Colbert says. “She’s got a very sharp mind. And I can’t imagine that Rahm Emanuel’s going to be very tough. He seems...
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No Fact Zone
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...President-elect Barack Obama has indicated he’ll support the act, D.C.’s Delegate to the House of Representatives, Eleanor Holmes Norton, told the supporters gathered for the Veteran’s Day rally. “He told me he will sign the bill,” Norton said. “It’s up to...
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Public Citizen
http://citizen.typepad.com/watchdog_blog/2008/11/dc-residents-ca.html
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...are limited in number240,000and distributed through members of Congress. The day after the election, District Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton said she set up a special telephone line and e-mail address to take requests, but her office was inundated with so many...
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Malaysia Sun
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Recorded in Washington, DC on November 4, 2008 in the night when Barack Obama was declared the victor of the Presidential elections. From Congresswoman Holmes website: Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is now in her ninth term as Congresswoman for the District of Columbia. She is chair of the House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Emergency Management, and Public Buildings. Named by President Jimmy Carter as the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she came to Congress as a national figure who had been a civil rights and feminist leader, tenured law professor of law, and board member of three Fortune 500 companies. Ms. Norton also had been named one of the 100 most important American women in one survey and one of the most powerful women in Washington in another. http://www.norton.house.gov/ .
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