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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was encouraged by the comments of Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and OGR Subcommittee on Government Operations Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC), who said at an OGR committee markup today they would work with her when the committee considers local District of Columbia issues.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that her scheduled meeting tomorrow with National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini to discuss strategies for more accurately measuring snowfall measurements within the boundaries of the District of Columbia must be postponed due to a conflict involving congressional business. A new date and time for the meeting will be announced soon.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a press conference with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson to defend D.C.’s medical aid-in-dying bill, the Death with Dignity Act, from congressional interference tomorrow, Tuesday, January 31, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. in 421 Cannon House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her prepared opening statement for a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) markup on the Committee’s Authorization and Oversight Plan for the 115th Congress tomorrow, Tuesday, January 31, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) condemned a provision in the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s (OGR) draft Authorization and Oversight Plan for the 115th Congress, released today, calling for increased oversight of the District of Columbia’s local affairs, and announced that she would file an amendment to strike the anti-home-rule provision at a committee markup of the plan tomorrow, Tuesday, January 31, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted the House Oversight Committee and Government Reform for announcing a markup of a disapproval resolution to nullify the District of Columbia’s medical aid-in-dying bill, the Death with Dignity Act, for Thursday, February 2, 2017, at 1:00 p.m., in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building, without holding a hearing on the bill with experts and not giving D.C. officials the opportunity to defend it.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) was elected by her fellow Democrats on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to return as the Ranking Member of its Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she was relieved that Members of Congress have moved to the next step to deal with the burgeoning issue of airplane noise following a year of frustration Norton has had in working with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on the issue in D.C. The Congresswoman this week joined Representative Stephen Lynch (D-MA) and members of the bipartisan Quiet Skies Caucus to introduce H.R. 598, the Airplane Impacts Mitigation (AIM) Act of 2017.