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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the “Rally for DC Lives” with District of Columbia students and other local leaders on Saturday, March 24, 2018, at 9:00 a.m., at Folger Park (3rd St. and D St. SE), ahead of the national “March for Our Lives.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement on the passing of her friend George Wilson, a veteran African-American journalist who covered national and local District of Columbia politics.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will join students from across the District of Columbia region and the country for a special “March For Our Lives” Town Hall, hosted by WUSA, tomorrow, Friday, March 23, 2018, from 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., at Sidney Harman Hall (610 F St. NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) got major wins for the District of Columbia topped by maintaining the record $40 million for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG) in the fiscal year 2018 omnibus appropriations bill last night.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has put in a call to her friend District of Columbia Councilmember Trayon White (Ward 8), following his comments suggesting that the Rothschilds—a prominent Jewish family—control the climate and the federal government.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today criticized Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) for failing to disclose to the public that his anti-LGBT First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) applies not only to the federal government but to one local jurisdiction, the District of Columbia, as well.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congressman Rob Wittman (R-VA) and Congressman André Carson (D-IN) today introduced a bill to clarify and protect certain due process rights of federal employees serving in sensitive positions. The bill would overturn a 2013 federal court decision that stripped many federal employees of due process rights to an independent review of an agency decision removing them from a job on national security grounds.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement after Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) responded to a letter from District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser refusing to withdraw his bill to eliminate nearly all of the city’s gun safety laws.