please welcome congresswoman eleanor holmes norton.nd applause] congresswoman, thank you so much for coming. good to see you again. you and i have been enemies long enough they think we're almost friends at this point. >> not quite. >> stephen: all right. all right. you represent the district of columbia where you are a non-voting member. i want to thank you in joining your republican colleagues in non-voting for any legislation. [applause] >> the difference is they can vote and still vote for legislation. >> stephen: but it's admirable restraint on their behalf. you're here to talk about the 50th anniversary of what's called freedom summer in mississippi. tell the young people what freedom summer was and the role you played in it. >> well, freedom summer was when large number, actually thousands, of students from all over the country came to mississippi to try to help mississippians who were kept from voting learn how to vote and to get them to the polls. >> stephen: okay. why wouldn't they just register? i understand that only 10% of

recently, community organizer and activist tamika mallory and congressional woman eleanor holmes nortonm neighborhood to talk about the history and future of social activism. take a look. >> i'm congresswoman eleanor holmes norton. i represent the people who live in the nation's capital, the district of columbia. >> i'm tamika mallory, a community organizer and activist. my activism really was sparked when my son, who is now 15 years old, his father was killed, shot and killed when my son was 2. i believe that at that moment, my activism was really sort of sparked. i've led many campaigns against guns, trying to get reduced gun violence and get guns off the street. i think i'm more concerned with the fact that there are a lot of issues that young people are dealing with that makes them turn to gun violence. >> well, that just goes to show you how the issues differ. now, there was street violence and street crime, but the civil rights movement overwhelmed every issue. it was the most important issue of the day. it does seem to be for your generation income inequality. >> absolutely. >> m

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congressman thomas massie was conspicuously present when eleanor holmes norton and city officials held a news conference to denounce his bill to nullify bc's gun laws that passed the house yesterday 241 to 181. >> i just wanted to hear what they had to say. >> at one point, he left the boat. he says his bill would stop anyone from prohibiting gun possession outside the home, including assault weapons. the mayor, quoting a civil rights activist said he was sick and tired of being sick and tired. >> it's un-american, unconscionable and offensive. >> it's an attack upon our rights and public safety. >> we found no support for the congressman's push. >> he's ram kentucky. they shouldn't try it in our city. >> but he insisted he had it right. >> i don't think you get to violate somebody's rights, basic civil rights simply because you have home rule. >> norton was asked if she was confident the city could eat that this political attack. what stand up here and say i'm confident of would be a fools paradise. i'm not confident of everything -- of anything. thatssie seemed confident he would los

delegate eleanor holmes norton says the court's decision is not an invitation for congress to intervene. you might recall in that 2008, the d.c. law that banned possession of handguns anywhere was everyturned by the u.s. supreme court. d.c. leaders responded with a new gun law that continues to ban the carry-in of handguns outside our homes. that ban may thou be in jeopardy. >>> coming up, no apparent cease-fire on the way toned the fighting between israel and hamas and gaza, and the israeli military is dealing with yet a renewed threat on a different front tonight. >>> the last line of thunderstorms is starting to make its way through the d.c. metro area. you can see them now on doppler continuing to push through northern maryland. we can take a quick look at doppler. you will be able to see those thunderstorms as they make their approach. but as we're waking up tomorrow morning, a different story. some sunshine entering the forecast, cooler, drier air is on the way. we will detail the arrival of that coming up in the first alert seven-day forecast. >>> i'm cameron thompson. a 47-year-

petri, and ranking member eleanor holmes norton. i rise today in support of h.r. 5021, the highway and transportation funding act of 2014. in particular, the bill before the house this afternoon would do two things. first, it will provide a total of $35.3 billion for highway public transit and surface transportation programs. secondly, it will extend surface transportation programs authorized under map-21 through 14. 31, 20 i support this bill because it takes almost 50,000 construction jobs in texas out of harm's way, and it ensures that over 3,500 active highway and transit projects in texas will not be slowed or stopped by the highway trust fund's shortfall. however, my support for this bill is reluctant. as i believe we have missed another opportunity to craft a long-term highway program yet again. while i'm pleased that we have come together to address the impeding highway crisis, we're also kicking the can down the road again. today's 65% of our nation's roads are rated at less than good condition and 25% of our bridges requir

members of congress, even calling democrat, eleanor holms norton, a good friend. >> it was a great feathey wanted to get it done for many years. different parties and persuasions of different types, and everybody got together and got it done. >> trump worked hard to win this coveted address. inside its a historic landmark in disrepair. by 2016, he promises things that current bathrooms that look like this, will look like this, the high end of luxury. with him planning to spend $200 million on othe renovations some -- on the renovations some say it will be hard to make money. >> you're okay if you don't make money? >> i don't i don't. nice to be rich. what we'll do is a great job. if i don't make money it will not affect me. it's nice to be able to play the game that way. >> but he insists he doesn't plan to lose money. >> we are going to do something that's spectacular. my history has been i do the right thing. i do spectacular jobs, and they turn out to be successful. >> so is donald trump buying this address instead of hoping to someday occupy 1600 pennsylvania seven? he's not saying

alomar -- eleanor holmes norton has introduced legislation to establish the civil war defense of washington national historical parks and have it under its own superintendent and hopefully its own staff and we will be able to do those exuberant like the gun. -- doing to give you those things we would like to see done. it is quite an amazing place. is theng i like to note farmland. all of this was farmland. hit andthe houses were burned. here it is today. in the 1930's, the ccc reconstructed much of fort stevens. you can't get the flavor of what it was like. it is well worth a visit. there is a magazine and a boulder. sorry i did not get a picture. it is their. it was also important in african-american history, then and now. it was the earliest black and thist in d.c. woman was a free african-american who owned 11 acres. women did not tend to own the land at all. and a free black woman is unusual. her land was taken for fort stevens. and just down from foreign this is private property. it was threatened with a townhouse development. some of us said we have got to do something. we got it adde

. >> today eleanor holmes norton is a long time member of congress. remitting washington, d.c.ut half a century ago, she was pushing for equality. and then came the signing of the civil rights act. in 1964. >> this was a monumental year. it was a year when what african americans had been trying to achieve for a hundred years began to metho mast itself. >> how much of a difference did the civil rights act make? >> it made a profound difference. to see us move from a period of extraordinary hostility to african american life to having now the first african american president in office that is a period of great change. >> as barriers came down black americans made progress. in 1964 about a quarter of blacks over age 25 had graduated from high school. now it's 85%. college completion rose from 4% to 21%. the poverty rate dropped from 42% to 27%. and median family income jumped. still by any measure, an equality rate remains. white americans have higher incomes. >> the metrics of opportunity can be discouraging. when you think about what it means to achieve equal opportunity in amer

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is not a state eleanor holmes norton norton has a lot of sway over the kinds of things congress to youtry and tell me that if the district if that if the despondency if the if the republicans allows represented had the ability to change the gun laws in new york unilaterally against against new york's opinion but they wouldn't do it no this is that like i said this is a states' rights issue i mean the if it were all about felony. there's a floor of the house that said d.c. the d.c. residents have said they want to have less restrictive gun control congress would pass it so i think that's the obvious here so i'm going to give you i'm going to give the republican party the been a for the doubt they're so focused on home constituencies that they're not going to not thinking about what's going on the district ok final word to see if you know in your ear something. it's made a shot an oval think you get going you're coming up at all o'neill the republican méribel haven north carolina has walked almost three hundred miles from his hometown to the nation's capital what made him take this track

in congress we have a delegate she is a non-voting delegate in the house of representatives eleanor holmes norton and we have absolutely no representation in the senate that's a problem in and of itself but it also adds to two additional problems which is d.c. the budget actually is part of the federal appropriations process so like most other states prioritize their own budget. and how they will spend their local tax dollars they develop their own policy priorities and they can move ahead d.c. can't without an affirmative approval from congress think in our budget and each and every one of our law has to go to the hill for final approval which might not have been a big deal in seventeen eighty nine when there was just a few thousand people living here and most of them actually came in to do their work in the afternoon evenings yeah all those people have no idea of the six hundred forty six thousand residents of the district i think one of your guests earlier said oh most of them work on the hill their staff at the white house are staff of congress that actually it's not true far less than fifty

eleanor holmes norton stated that it's in all of our best interests to get this work done. it's in all of our best interests to come to some agreement. as a texan, as a member of the donor state there are a lot of things we may or may not like about this. but i would remind us that we are americans, and that we try and work together and solve our problems through not only rule of law, but this opportunity to work together with members of congress from all across this country. so i am delighted that, in fact, you have succeeded in rounding us up and getting us to do that. i note that we've had one member that has just appeared, and i did not know if any member seeks additional time. i want to thank this panel. anything you have in writing if you'll leave for us we'll put that in the record. this panel is now -- gentleman does seek time. for one minute. >> 30 seconds. >> gentleman is recognized for a minute. [ inaudible ] >> one sentence i hope people pay careful attention to. congress should work to pass long-term reauthorization bill well before the expiration date set fort

eleanor holmes norton stated that it's in all of our best interests to get this work done. it's in all of our best interests to come to some agreement. as a texan, as a member of the donor state there are a lot of things we may or may not like about this. but i would remind us that we are americans, and that we try and work together and solve our problems through not only rule of law, but this opportunity to work together with members of congress from all across this country. so i am delighted that, in fact, you have succeeded in rounding us up and getting us to do that. i note that we've had one member that has just appeared, and i did not know if any member seeks additional time. i want to thank this panel. anything you have in writing if you'll leave for us we'll put that in the record. this panel is now -- gentleman does seek time. for one minute. >> 30 seconds. >> gentleman is recognized for a minute. [ inaudible ] >> one sentence i hope people pay careful attention to. congress should work to pass long-term reauthorization bill well before the expiration date set fort

representatives introduced here in the house of representatives by delegate leanor homes norton -- eleanor holmes norton about a month and a half ago and it has simply sat there. the transportation and infrastructure committee of this house has not taken it up, although it should. we should be holding hearings on this issue, because this is what we need to address. the rail system, the buses, the ports, the bridges, the highways, the freight systems, the movement of men, women, materials, freight all across this country. the program is a very robust program and it will over four years bring us almost, almost ack to what we were doing in 2002, because in four years, we would be spending at the level year over that a four-year period of time. here's what it means for next year. if we were to pass the grow america act now rather than kicking the can down the road, beginning in october 1 of this year, 2014, we would have $7.6 billion to fix our highway system. we would have 6.8 billion to improve public transportation, buses, light rate, inner city -- $3.4 billion for our rail systems which you have in the

member on our highways and transit committee, the gentlelady from the district of columbia, eleanor holmes norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from the district of columbia is recognized for two minutes. ms. norton: thank you. madam speaker, i thank my good friend, the ranking member of the full committee, for his work to try to get us a fully funded bill. as i'm sure the chairman desired as well. i must say, madam speaker, we shored up the highway trust fund four times since 2008. four patches. this would be the fifth. until may. and everyone knows what we are doing. we are setting ourselves up for another series of short-term extensions. we don't dare leave the trust fund insolvent, not us. but we don't have the guts to help our own states get on with urgently needed projects. short-term funding is like no funding. where is the dissent on this traditionally bipartisan bill, the highway bill? it is certainly not in the states. it's in the republican caucus. where they have a crisis among some of their members who believe that spending money on anything is an original sin, even at th