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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will manage her first special order time on the House floor for this session of Congress on statehood for the District of Columbia this afternoon, a day after D.C. residents came in record numbers to the Congress to ask Members to cosponsor the D.C. statehood bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As black history is celebrated this month, the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released Norton’s letter to the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) requesting it recommend that USPS issue a commemorative stamp honoring civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will introduce legislation this week that would end the unique applicability of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) to the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released Norton’s letter to Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Acting Director Hugh J. Hurwitz requesting a list of all laws, rules, regulations, policies and programs applicable to federal offenders in BOP custody that are not applicable to D.C. Code felons in BOP custody.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a leading proponent of back pay for federal contract workers, today decried President Trump’s blocking of back pay for these workers and said she is already seeking other avenues to get them back pay.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Now that federal employees and federal contract workers do not have to fear a second government shutdown, the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she has asked the five major credit reporting companies not consider missed bill payments by federal employees and federal contract workers due to the government shutdown when calculating their credit scores.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the final fiscal year 2019 Appropriations bill contains funding for her priorities for the District of Columbia, including over $175 million for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) consolidation at St. Elizabeths in Ward 8 and $150 million for Metro.

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) urged District of Columbia residents to continue the bicentennial celebration of Frederick’s Douglass birth by celebrating his 201st birthday today. Douglass was a longtime D.C. resident and an avid proponent of equal rights for D.C. residents