All posts tagged "eleanor holmes norton"
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Congress seeks to overturn D.C. reproductive rights bill
LGBT groups stand in solidarity with their allies in the women’s and civil rights movement against congressional interference
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Norton: Indiana backlash reason to reject resolutions of disapproval
Delegate still fighting against Armstrong Amendment exemption
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Cruz and Lankford introduce resolution of disapproval to overturn Council bill
Cruz and Lankford introduce resolution of disapproval to overturn Council bill
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Norton hits back at Heritage Foundation over Human Rights Amendment Act
D.C.’s non-voting delegate to the U.S. Congress slammed conservative think tank Heritage Foundation for its attempts to convince the D.C. Council to abandon plans to...
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Frontline Figure
Eleanor Holmes Norton was 26 years old when somewhere around 250,000 people descended on the nation's capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and...
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Equity Rising
The International Federation of Black Prides, an organization sprouted from the 1999 D.C. Black Pride event and today encompassing dozens of groups, announced Thursday evening...
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Gay Libertarian Challenges Holmes Norton
Bruce Majors's platform for Congress may raise some eyebrows: he doesn't have one. ''I don't think I need one,'' Majors says candidly. ''I'm not running...
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Riders Signed Into Law
On Friday, April 15, President Barack Obama signed the budget bill that averted the government shutdown two weeks ago. In doing so, he issued a...
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Battening the Hatches
If the Republican Party regains control of Congress on Nov. 2, already-stalled pro-gay legislation would be dead — at least barring an uncharacteristically bold lame-duck...
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Letter from Eleanor Holmes Norton
Congressional Record Honoring the 20th Annual DC Black Pride Celebration
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Historic Day in D.C.
At 6 a.m. this morning, March 3, Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend arrived at the Carl Moultrie Courthouse where, nearly three hours later, they would...
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Celebrating Marriage Equality [video]
Counting down the minutes until D.C. marriage equality legislation became law, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) threw a celebratory party in the Rayburn House...
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Utah Congressman Takes Aim at D.C.
The ranking Republican member of the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia filed legislation on Tuesday, Jan. 26, disapproving...
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Congress Rolling Back Riders
Time and again over the past decades, the District has been held back from implementing measures that some in Congress don't like, from needle-exchange programs...
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Federal Employees One Step Closer to Equal Benefits
A House committee on Wednesday evening approved a bill to provide equal benefits to gay federal employees with domestic partners, but not without a political...
