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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton will meet with representatives of the Scottish Rite Freemasonry Supreme Council to discuss steps to remove a statue of Confederate General Albert Pike, located on federal land under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service (NPS) near Judiciary Square, tomorrow, Thursday, September 28, 2017, at 11:00 a.m., in 2136 Rayburn House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) asking whether BOP has the capacity and planning in place to move and relocate inmates from facilities facing severe damage from flooding, hurricanes or other natural disasters.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act of 2017 to require the United States to negotiate an international agreement to disable and dismantle its nuclear weapons by 2024 and to redirect the funds to human and infrastructure needs, such as housing, health care, Social Security and the environment.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who asked the U.S. State Department to address a growing number of buildings owned by foreign governments in the District of Columbia that have been vacated and fallen into poor condition, released the U.S. State Department Office of Foreign Missions’ (OFM) response to her letter, which shows heightened progress on a number of these properties.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton will continue her Senior Legislative Tour with a visit to East Rock Creek Village (7838 Eastern Avenue NW) tomorrow, Tuesday, September 19, 2017, from noon – 2:00 p.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—After the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday voted to advance Dabney Langhorne Friedrich’s nomination to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to the full Senate, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she would continue to seek consultation on federal law enforcement nominees in D.C. Despite repeated requests, the Trump administration has continued to make nominations without consulting Norton.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Although the fiscal year 2018 D.C. Appropriations bill passed by the House today contains five anti-home-rule riders, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she believes she will be able to keep most of them out of the final spending bill, which must be passed by December 8.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As an Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee hearing yesterday on 21st Century Infrastructure quickly became chiefly devoted to the impacts of recent hurricanes, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) raised the increasing importance of finding ways to improve investments in pre-disaster infrastructure.