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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill to permit commercial filming and photography on all U.S. Capitol Grounds, beyond the single area where it is currently permitted, Union Square, when both chambers of Congress are out of session.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the U.S. Marshals Service’s (USMS) response to Norton’s letter requesting that the office of U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia Superior Court reexamine its eviction policies after an incident in which tax documents were left on a curb in D.C. during the eviction of a local tax company.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for reintroducing a bill she has kept from moving before that would radically alter the District of Columbia’s local education system by forcing D.C. to steer its local funds away from D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) and public charter schools to vouchers for any student who chooses to attend private schools.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the first woman to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), today spoke on the House floor in support of a resolution requiring House Members and staff to complete anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training, but even though it passed and is now in force, congressional staff still lack the same workplace protections afforded to executive branch and private sector employees.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who serves on the House Judiciary Committee, for offering an amendment today that would exempt the District of Columbia from a bill (H.R. 38) that would require every jurisdiction to recognize out-of-state concealed carry handgun permits, even though states have different requirements for such permits.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that yesterday’s Senate confirmation of Dabney Langhorne Friedrich to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia means that half of the six Senate-confirmed district court nominees this year were for the D.C. district court.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will travel to Baltimore, MD for a special Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) field hearing today, Tuesday, November 28, 2017, at 12:30 p.m., at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (Chevy Chase Auditorium, 1800 Orleans St., Baltimore, MD).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Representative Steve King (R-IA) for introducing a bill attacking the District of Columbia's local labor laws. King’s bill, the Freedom from Union Violence Act of 2017, would make it a special federal crime to engage in violence during a labor dispute solely within the District, but not solely within states.