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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) filed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (H.R. 5515) to give the District of Columbia home-rule authority over the D.C. National Guard.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will deliver the homily at a special celebration of the life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall tomorrow, Sunday, May 20, 2018, at 9:00 a.m., at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church (555 Water St. SW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will deliver the commencement address to graduates of Georgetown Law School and receive an honorary degree on Sunday, May 20, 2018, at 2:00 p.m., on Healy Lawn (37th St. and O St. NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a special ceremony to commemorate the planting of a tree on Capitol Grounds in honor of the District of Columbia on Monday, May 21, 2018, at 11:30 a.m., at the northwest corner of the U.S. Capitol Grounds (First St. and Constitution Ave. NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, chaired by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), today passed Norton’s bill (H.R. 2897) that clarifies that the District of Columbia and the National Park Service (NPS) have the authority to enter into cooperative management agreements to maintain and operate NPS properties in the District, such as Franklin Park.

WASHINGTON – Today, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) – led by CBC Chairman Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA-02), CBC Judicial Nominations Task Force Chair Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), and CBC Texas Delegation Members Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX-30), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX-18), and Marc Veasey (D-TX-33) – called on the U.S. Senate to reject the nomination of Andrew Oldham to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will testify before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands on her bill to recognize and preserve the Civil War defenses of Washington located in the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland today, Thursday, May 17, 2018, at: 2:00 p.m., in 1324 Longworth House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the groundbreaking ceremony for Bread for the City’s new Southeast Center tomorrow, Thursday, May 17, 2018, at 9:00 a.m., at 1710 Good Hope Rd. SE.