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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.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) home-rule provision to change a 1958 law that treated the District of Columbia government as a part of the federal government, as it was then, was included in a bill passed today by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked the national organizations that stepped forward to help her protect a District of Columbia local anti-discrimination law, the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Act (RHNDA), from being blocked by an amendment offered by Representative Gary Palmer (R-AL) to the fiscal year 2018 D.C. Appropriations bill, which is expected to be considered on the House floor tomorrow.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced her bill to establish a commission to help the nation balance legitimate security concerns with public access to federal buildings and spaces. Norton introduced her bill on the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, which ushered in an unprecedented closing off of public spaces in the nation’s capital and elsewhere.