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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced the workshop schedule for her 2017 Small Business Fair, which is on Thursday, June 15, 2017, from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (801 Mount Vernon Place NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today responded to the announcement that Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has been recommended by the Republican Steering Committee as the next chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), which has jurisdiction over the District of Columbia, and that he is expected to be confirmed in that role by a vote of the full Republican Caucus next week.

​WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host her annual Service Academy College Fair and Sendoff to present her ten 2017 nominees to the U.S. Service Academies and Service Academy Preparatory Schools today, Thursday, June 8, 2017, from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., in the Old Council Chamber at One Judiciary Square (441 4th St. NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to eliminate the requirement that residents at Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) halfway houses (Residential Reentry Centers) pay a subsistence fee of 25 percent of their gross income to offset the cost of being housed.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host her annual Service Academy College Fair and Sendoff to present her ten 2017 appointees to the U.S. Service Academies and Service Academy Preparatory Schools on Thursday, June 8, 2017, from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., in the Old Council Chamber at One Judiciary Square (441 4th St. NW). Thursday’s Fair will feature a special appearance by Admiral Cecil D. Haney, USN (Ret.), a District of Columbia native and graduate of Eastern Senior High School and of the United States Naval Academy (’78).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) asking for a committee hearing to examine the transportation of lithium batteries by air and U.S. efforts to ban electronics larger than cellphones in carry-on bags on commercial airplanes.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) this afternoon will speak at the House floor debate of a bipartisan resolution, cosponsored by Norton, condemning the vicious beating of peaceful protesters who were gathered outside the Turkish Ambassador’s residence in the District of Columbia last month.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation requesting an investigation into the posting of fake fliers in District of Columbia neighborhoods with the official letterhead of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) calling on residents to report undocumented immigrants or those harboring undocumented immigrants to ICE.