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Norton to Host D.C. Statehood Press Conference with Senator Carper, Mayor Bowser, Chairman Mendelson, Today

March 1, 2017

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a press conference with Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson for a dual-purpose D.C. statehood event today, Wednesday, March 1, 2017, at 2:00 p.m., in 406 Dirksen Senate Office Building (Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works). Today, Norton will introduce her bill to make D.C. the 51st state, with a record number of original cosponsors in the House. Senator Carper will introduce the statehood bill in the Senate. Norton is welcoming Mayor Bowser and Chairman Mendelson to deliver the D.C. Council's formal petition for statehood to the Congress, at the direction of the statehood referendum passed overwhelmingly by D.C. voters. In November, 85 percent of D.C. voters approved a referendum that asked voters "whether the Council should petition Congress to enact a statehood admission act to admit the State of New Columbia to the Union." The press conference is open to the public.

WHO

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)

Senator Tom Carper (D-DE)

Mayor Muriel Bowser

Council Chairman Phil Mendelson

WHAT

D.C. Statehood Press Conference

WHERE

406 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

WHEN

Today

March 1, 2017

2:00 p.m.