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WASHINGTON, D.C.—After announcing during August recess that she would introduce a bill to prohibit employers from asking prospective or current employees for their salary history before making a job or salary offer, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has introduced the Pay Equity for All Act of 2016 (H.R. 6030) with original cosponsors Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Jackie Speier (D-CA). The bill seeks to eliminate the wage gap that women and people of color often encounter.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she was grateful to the Senate Judiciary Committee for voting to confirm Florence Pan to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has introduced a bill to amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CMZA) in order to include the District of Columbia in the definition of a coastal state, which would make D.C. eligible for federal coastal zone management funding.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a resolution to designate September as “National Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has introduced a bill to add the Mayor of the District of Columbia to the list of principals for whom the president can order the nation’s flag be flown at half-staff.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will take to the House floor this evening at approximately 7:10 p.m. to praise new bipartisan support in the District of Columbia for the upcoming referendum in November for D.C. statehood.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will give opening remarks at the 2016 DC Flood Summit, tomorrow, Thursday, September 8, 2016, at 9:00 a.m., at the Kellogg Conference Hotel at Gallaudet University (800 Florida Ave. NE).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that President Obama has nominated Abid Qureshi to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, as recommended by Norton. Norton said Qureshi would be the first-ever Muslim appointed to a lifetime tenure judgeship. Qureshi currently is a partner at the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP (Latham).