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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys, said that today's Caucus roundtable on President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing report, released yesterday, has already yielded some ideas after testimony from Task Force co-chair and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles "Chuck" Ramsey. As a result of testimony by Commissioner Ramsey and Howard University Student Government President Leighton Watson, Norton proposed replicating the federal Task Force's mission at the local level across the country.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that today's passage of a clean fiscal year 2015 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations bill ensures the additional $48.6 million needed for DHS to move into the Center building complex at the DHS campus at St. Elizabeths in Ward 8. The Center building will house the DHS secretary and top DHS officials, and a contractor already has been working on the building. The fiscal year 2015 omnibus appropriations bill, passed in December, included $144 million for DHS consolidation at St. Elizabeths.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday introduced a bill to give the District of Columbia home-rule authority over the D.C. National Guard and strengthen the Guard itself. The bill, the District of Columbia National Guard Home Rule Act, would give the mayor of the District authority that governors have in their states over their Guards. However, in the case of the District, the mayor would be able to deploy the D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that she will fight a sweeping national anti-choice Senate Republican bill that picks out the District of Columbia's women for harsh treatment, even beyond the other women of the country, who are also targets of the bill. The bill would, among other things, permanently prohibit the District of Columbia government from spending its local funds on abortion services for low-income women, prohibit D.C. government employees from providing abortions, prohibit abortions in D.C. government facilities, and define the D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on Senator Barbara Mikulski's (D-MD) announcement that she will not be seeking reelection to the U.S. Senate:

*President's Task Force on 21^st Century Policing Report Released Today*

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today released the following statement on two separate incidents that occurred outside the White House grounds last night and this morning: