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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) is scheduled to speak at a rally today outside of the AFL-CIO headquarters (815 16th St. NW) hosted by more than 20 labor unions representing federal employees and federal contract workers to call on Republicans and President Trump to end the partial government shutdown.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that a federal lands package introduced by Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) contains Norton’s bill that clarifies that the District of Columbia and the National Park Service (NPS) have the authority to enter into cooperative management agreements (CMAs) to maintain and operate NPS properties in the District, such as Franklin Park.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today led a group of House Democrats in writing to Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russell Vought requesting he direct federal agencies to provide back pay to low- and middle-income employees of federal contractors who were furloughed or otherwise impacted by the government shutdown.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today spoke at a ceremony to celebrate the District of Columbia’s oldest synagogue, dedicated in 1876, being moved for the third time in its history to serve as the centerpiece of the new Capital Jewish Museum.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the House Rules Committee last evening at a markup defeated three anti-home-rule amendments that Norton had to fight hard to defeat before Democrats took the House majority.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In solidarity with federal employees working or furloughed without pay, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives, Philip Kiko, requesting that her salary be withheld until the ongoing partial federal government shutdown ends and all federal workers receive their paychecks.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reintroduced her bill to guarantee back pay to low-wage federally contracted retail, food, custodial and security service workers not getting paid during the current federal government shutdown (fiscal year 2019).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was grateful to her friend Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for her strong public statement today in support of Norton’s bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act (H.R. 51).