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WASHINGTON, D.C – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced she will introduce her Universal Prekindergarten and Early Childhood Education Act, which would use federal grants to encourage public school systems to provide universal, prekindergarten to every child, regardless of income.

WASHINGTON, D.C – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has introduced a resolution designating Chuck Brown’s birthday, August 22nd, as “Chuck Brown Day” in the District of Columbia and across the nation in honor of his contributions as the “Godfather of Go-Go.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to require the Director of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA), an independent federal agency created by Congress that supervises offenders only in D.C., to reside in the District during the Director’s tenure.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a statement today on continuing discussions and efforts to dismantle federal agencies in the nation’s capital.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter today to Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Acting Director Hugh Hurwitz requesting an update on the federal residential reentry center (RRC), or halfway house, contract in the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Co-Chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus, has written a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Steve Dickson inviting him to address the Quiet Skies Caucus and update members on outstanding FAA projects related to aircraft noise, including a now long and continuously delayed FAA study reevaluating the threshold for noise mitigation activities.

WASHINGTON, D.C – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to rename Rock Creek Park “Rock Creek National Park,” which would acknowledge the importance of the park for the nation, visitors and tourists, in addition to its central place for District of Columbia residents.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the 54th anniversary celebration of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) today, Tuesday, August 6th, outside the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial at 7:00 p.m.