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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today applauded all 47 Democratic Senators after Senators Tom Udall (D-NM) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) led their colleagues in introducing the For the People Act, the pro-democracy bill for the nation focusing on voting rights, ethics reforms, and fair elections.

Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), the Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos requesting documents and information on the federal private school voucher program in the District of Columbia. Authorization for the voucher program expires on September 30, 2019.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” conversation with Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 4A tomorrow night at the Metropolitan Police Department’s District Four Station at 6:00 p.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today sent a letter to the Senate urging it to address the vacancy crisis in the local District of Columbia courts.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton’s Pay Equity for All Act, which prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their salary history, passed the House of Representatives yesterday as part of H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act, authored by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT).

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act (H.R. 1496), which updates the 1958 Former Presidents Act, includes language that removes the current law’s treatment of the District of Columbia government as part of the federal government.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at Georgetown’s 3rd Annual Criminal Justice Summit tomorrow to discuss her work on criminal justice reform.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) joined District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development Brian Kenner, and U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) today to highlight federal Opportunity Zones legislation that Norton and Scott worked on together to ensure benefits would go to D.C. neighborhoods and businesses.