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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she plans to mount a vigorous defense of the District of Columbia’s medical aid-in-dying bill, the Death with Dignity Act, from congressional attacks after Senator James Lankford (R-OK) and Representative Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) today introduced resolutions of disapproval to block the District’s local legislation from taking effect.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the lottery drawing to determine recipients of the Congresswoman’s allotted tickets to attend the 58th Presidential Inauguration has been postponed. An updated date and time will be announced.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that her office will hold a lottery drawing tomorrow, Tuesday, January 10, 2017, at 1:00 p.m., in 2136 Rayburn House Office Building, to determine recipients of the Congresswoman’s allotted tickets to attend the 58th Presidential Inauguration.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” conversation in conjunction with Advisory Neighborhood Commission 1B this evening, Thursday, January 5, 2017, at 6:30 p.m., at the District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency (815 Florida Ave. NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she hopes that signs posted this week, for the first time, at the entrance of congressional office buildings indicating that guns are prohibited in the Capitol Complex would end the hypocritical efforts by Republicans to eliminate the District of Columbia’s local gun safety laws while Congress takes extra efforts to ensure guns are barred from the Capitol Complex.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) Director Leif Dormsjo asking DDOT to consider alternatives to the current plan of suspending all construction activities on roadways and sidewalks from Friday, January 13, 2017 through Tuesday, January 24, 2017.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today forced the first legislative roll-call vote of the 115th Congress on her motion to restore the vote of the District of Columbia delegate on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole, upheld as constitutional by two federal courts.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will force a vote on the House floor to restore the vote of District of Columbia delegate on the House floor in the Committee of the Whole today, Tuesday, January 3, 2017, at approximately 2:40 p.m.