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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House of Representatives today by voice vote passed Norton’s bill, the Fairness for Breastfeeding Mothers Act, requiring buildings that are either federally owned or leased to provide designated private and hygienic lactation spaces for nursing mothers.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will bring Faye Smith, a District of Columbia resident and a federally-contracted Smithsonian security officer, as her guest to tonight’s State of the Union address.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer remarks at the first annual Eleanor Holmes Norton Legacy Fund Scholarship Award Reception this evening, Thursday, January 31, 2019, at 6:30 p.m., at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law (4349 Connecticut Ave. NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill to create a local prosecutor’s office, designated under local law, to prosecute all local crimes in the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on the adoption of the rules for the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which remove the District of Columbia from the jurisdiction of any of the Committee’s subcommittees and put D.C. matters in the full Committee.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a press conference with Senator Tina Smith (D-MN), Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and members of 32BJ SEIU—which represents over 600 janitors and security officers who were furloughed and did not receive back pay after previous shutdowns—to call for Congress to provide back pay for low-wage federal contract workers tomorrow, Tuesday, January 28, 2019, at 2:15 p.m., in 215 SVC (Capitol Visitor Center, Senate Side).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), joined by Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Anthony Brown (D-MD) and David Trone (D-MD), today wrote the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting it conduct a study of helicopter noise within the Washington metropolitan region.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today urged District of Columbia residents to enroll in affordable health insurance plans being offered by DC Health Link before the open enrollment period ends on January 31, 2019.