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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be the Grand Marshal at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Parade today, Monday, January 15, 2018, at noon.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that when Congress returns from recess, she will introduce a resolution calling on Congress to update the Voting Rights Act by enacting new voting rights legislation, such as updated preclearance provisions, and condemning state voter suppression laws, which disproportionately deny voting rights to people of color, the elderly, and low-income residents.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that her bill that will help rehabilitate National Park Service (NPS) neighborhood parks in the District of Columbia is scheduled for consideration on the House floor on Tuesday, January 16, 2018, under fast track suspension of the rules.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who authored the nation’s sexual harassment guidance as the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will discuss the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements on the PBS series “To The Contrary,” which can be seen today, Friday, January 12, 2018, at 5:30 p.m. (WETA), Saturday, January 13, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. (WHUT), and Sunday, January 14, 2018, at 9:30 a.m. (WETA).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released Norton’s letter to Senate Sergeant at Arms Frank J. Larkin requesting he reconsider his apparent opposition to the construction of a protected bike lane between Union Station and the U.S. Capitol Grounds on Louisiana Avenue.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer remarks at the 34th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast, hosted by the United Planning Organization (UPO), tomorrow, Thursday, January 11, 2018, from 8:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m., at the National Press Club (529 14th Street, NW, 13th Floor).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today issued the following statement after Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) announced he would not seek reelection. From 2011-2015, Issa served as chair of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), which has jurisdiction over the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Judicial Nominations Working Group, will lead a CBC forum on the virtually unexamined issue of lack of diversity of President Trump’s nominees for the federal bench today, Tuesday, January 9, 2018, at 3:30 p.m., in 2253 Rayburn House Office Building.