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WASHINGTON, D.C.—As the nation commemorates Public Service Recognition Week, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) today introduced the RECOVER Act (Reducing the Effects of the Cyberattack on OPM Victims Emergency Response Act) to provide free lifetime identity protection coverage to current, former and prospective federal employees and contractors whose Social Security Numbers were compromised by Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breaches in 2015.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today welcomed Team 26, a group of 26 cyclists inspired to action after the 2012 tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, to the District of Columbia as they completed their 400-mile journey from Newtown.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will press her bill to prohibit the Census Bureau from including questions on citizenship, nationality or immigration status on the 2020 census questionnaire and thereafter at an Oversight Government Reform Committee hearing, entitled “Progress Report on the 2020 Census,” tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at 1:00 p.m., in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) can be seen on this week’s episode of the PBS series “To The Contrary” as Norton and other panelists discuss the explosive new allegations against famous rapper R. Kelly of sexual assault of underage Black girls, his attempt to cover it up and cancellations of his performances.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that her 2018 Small Business Fair will take place on Thursday, June 7, 2018, from 9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (801 Mount Vernon Place NW). The Fair is free of charge and open only to District of Columbia residents and small businesses.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released Norton’s prepared remarks from her press conference today with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and a national and local coalition working to protect local D.C. laws from being blocked or overturned during the fiscal year 2019 appropriations process.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton will host a press conference with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and a coalition of national and local organizations to protect D.C.’s local laws during the upcoming fiscal year 2019 appropriations process on Wednesday, May 2, 2018, at 11:30 a.m., in HVC-215 (Capitol Visitor Center).