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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today congratulated Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) on her historic election as the first woman to chair the House Oversight and Reform Committee following the death of Elijah Cummings last month.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the Breastfeeding Mothers Jury Duty Exclusion Act of 2019, which would allow breastfeeding mothers summoned for jury duty in federal court or in the District of Columbia courts (which are controlled by the federal government) to be excused from service for the period that they are breastfeeding an infant.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a D.C Affordable Housing Community Forum on Tuesday, November 19th, at 6:00 p.m. at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a House resolution today condemning restrictive state voting laws across the country that unconstitutionally deny voting rights to people of color, the elderly, and low-income residents.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the second anniversary of the killing of Bijan Ghaisar by U.S. Park Police this Sunday, November 17th, at 3:00 p.m. at the Lincoln Memorial.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), and Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) released a letter today urging the U.S. Park Police to open an internal investigation into the killing of Bijan Ghaisar.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked 18 national organizations that wrote to leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations committees urging Congress to remove the rider that prohibits the District of Columbia from using local funds to commercialize recreational marijuana.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today issued a statement on the Justice Department’s announcement that it would not charge the U.S. Park Police officers involved in the November 2017 killing of Bijan Ghaisar.