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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House Rules Committee is scheduled to consider amendments to the fiscal year 2018 Transportation, Housing And Urban Development Appropriations bill, including her amendments to prohibit states that receive federal transportation funding from engaging in unconstitutional profiling based on physical characteristics and another to increase funding for Section 8 tenant-based vouchers by 1 percent, or $187 million, today, Tuesday, September 5, 2017, at 4:00 p.m. in H-312 (U.S. Capitol).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the House Rules Committee is scheduled to consider amendments to the fiscal year 2018 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, including Norton’s amendments to strike all four anti-home-rule riders from the bill, during a markup tomorrow, Wednesday, September 6, 2017, in H-312 (U.S. Capitol).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that today’s scheduled first Senate confirmation vote on one of President Trump’s nominees to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia draws into focus the unfair treatment of D.C. residents in the nomination process by both the Trump administration and the Republican-led Senate.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued the following statement on the passing of former Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Isaac Fulwood Jr., who continued his service after his retirement from MPD as chair of the U.S. Parole Commission, appointed by President Obama on the recommendation of Norton, and as chair of her District of Columbia Commission on Black Men and Boys.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), today called on current members of Metro’s Board of Directors to resign to make way for the smaller five-member temporary board recommended by former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson calling on the U.S. State Department to address a growing number of buildings owned by foreign missions in the District of Columbia that have been vacated and fallen into poor condition, posing health and safety risks to neighbors and depressing nearby property values.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Representative Gary Palmer (R-AL) for filing an amendment to the House’s fiscal year 2018 District of Columbia Appropriations bill to block the District from spending its local funds to enforce a local anti-discrimination law, the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act (RHNDA), which prohibits employers from discriminating against employees, their spouses and dependents based on their reproductive health decisions.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Faced with the almost-disappearance of affordable housing in the District of Columbia and across the nation, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) filed an amendment to the fiscal year 2018 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations (THUD) bill to increase the funding for Section 8 tenant-based vouchers by 1 percent, or $187 million, which would translate into approximately 21,000 new housing vouchers.