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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” conversation in conjunction with Advisory Neighborhood Commission 8A this evening, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at 7:00 p.m., at the District of Columbia Department of Housing and Community Development (1800 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE).

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released an advance copy of her prepared opening statement ahead of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) markup of a bill to reauthorize the District of Columbia private school voucher program tomorrow, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, co-chair of the Quiet Skies Caucus and a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, continued her efforts to reduce airplane noise in the District of Columbia and across the country at a committee hearing yesterday.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The day after introducing her bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state and hosting Mayor Muriel Bowser and Chairman Phil Mendelson at the Capitol to deliver the D.C. Council’s formal petition for statehood to the Congress, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will take special-order time on the House floor to speak on D.C. statehood today, Thursday, March 2, 2017, at approximately 11:15 a.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released her statement ahead of a dual-purpose District of Columbia statehood press conference today with Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a press conference with Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson for a dual-purpose D.C. statehood event today, Wednesday, March 1, 2017, at 2:00 p.m., in 406 Dirksen Senate Office Building (Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will bring Claudette Monroy, a District of Columbia resident who benefited from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), as her guest to President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress this evening.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton’s bill, the Fairness for Breastfeeding Mothers Act (H.R. 1174), to require buildings that are either federally owned or leased to provide designated private and hygienic lactation spaces for nursing mothers passed the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee by voice vote.