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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.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a press conference with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, and Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) for a dual-purpose D.C. statehood event on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, at 2:00 p.m., at the House Triangle (SE corner of Capitol).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a town hall to protect the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from Republican congressional attacks and to hear from District of Columbia residents who have benefitted from the ACA, including those with employer-provided insurance, seniors, women, and Medicaid enrollees, on Thursday, February 23, 2017, at 6:00 p.m., at One Judiciary Square (441 4th St. NW), Old Council Chamber (First Floor).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a town hall on protecting the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from Republican attacks in Congress and to hear from District of Columbia residents who have benefitted from the ACA, including those with employer-provided insurance, seniors, women, and Medicaid enrollees, on Thursday, February 23, 2017, at a location to be determined.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the District of Columbia’s medical aid-in-dying bill, the Death with Dignity Act, will take effect tomorrow, Saturday, February 18, 2017. Under the Home Rule Act, D.C. bills take effect upon the expiration of a congressional review period, unless a joint resolution disapproving a bill is enacted into law during the review period.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will give remarks at the University of the District of Columbia’s (UDC) 41st Anniversary Founders’ Day Celebration tomorrow, Thursday, February 16, 2017, at 10:00 a.m., on UDC’s Van Ness Campus at the Theater of the Arts Auditorium (Connecticut Ave. at Windom Circle, NW).