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WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Inspector General Phyllis K. Fong requesting that she examine the legality, the rationale, and the process used to develop the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) proposal to relocate the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, currently located in the nation’s capital, by the end of 2019, and to reorganize ERS under the Office of the Secretary, a political office. Nearly 700 federal employees could be affected by the relocation.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—With aircraft noise rising here in the District of Columbia and around the country, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus and a senior Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Aviation Subcommittee, today announced she has gotten several of her provisions to help address airplane noise and other priorities included in the final House-Senate negotiated Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a Yale Law School alumna, today supported a letter signed by 47 members of the Yale Law School faculty calling on the Senate to conduct a fair and deliberate confirmation process that includes an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will speak at two events celebrating and supporting the District of Columbia’s LBGTQ community.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) can be seen on this week’s airing of the PBS series “To The Contrary” today, Friday, September 21, 2018, at 5:30 p.m. (WETA); Saturday, September 22, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. (WHUT); and Sunday, September 23, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. (WETA).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that she will introduce a bill to require all federal agencies to include in their annual budget requests to Congress the amount they spent in the most recent fiscal year on advertising contracts with newspapers and media companies owned by minorities and women, as well as projections of such spending for the upcoming fiscal year.

Why are Republicans resisting the standard FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford against Judge Brett Kavanaugh (President George H.W. Bush ordered one during the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas controversy)?

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus, released a detailed summary of findings from Norton’s community meeting on reducing helicopter noise in the District of Columbia.