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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today responded to a press report that Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) had a discussion last Thursday with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) about Massie’s bill (H.R. 2909) to require the District of Columbia to recognize out-of-state permits to carry concealed guns, regardless of the state standards for issuing such permits.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement on the announcement by Mayor Muriel Bowser that the District of Columbia implemented today its medical aid-in-dying law, the Death with Dignity Act (DWDA).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that at last night’s committee markup of the fiscal year 2018 District of Columbia appropriations bill, D.C. faced two new riders, both offered by Representative Andy Harris (R-MD).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, at a Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management hearing on oversight of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) pressed GSA Acting Administrator Tim Horne on whether the U.S. government had received its share of profits from the Trump International Hotel, which leases the former Old Post Office building from GSA.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to permanently place a statue depicting Pierre L’Enfant, the designer of the District of Columbia’s master plan, in the U.S. Capitol.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released Norton’s testimony on her amendment to the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 2810) to give the District of Columbia home-rule authority over the D.C. National Guard.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton met yesterday with two of the three pending nominees for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Dabney Friedrich and Timothy Kelly, her first meeting with nominees of President Trump.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that today’s Music on the Mall performance is canceled due to a heat advisory warning. The performances will be rescheduled for a later date.