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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to National Park Service (NPS) National Capital Region Director Robert Vogel requesting NPS consider creating an online portal to provide District of Columbia residents with regularly updated information on neighborhood parks owned and operated by NPS in the District, including answers to frequently-asked maintenance questions and contact information for representatives responsible for the parks.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—At a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing today on the National Park Service (NPS), Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) took her committee colleague Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) to task after he alleged NPS mismanagement was to blame for the crumbling state of the Arlington Memorial Bridge.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked her constituents as she released a letter she wrote to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regarding a petition submitted by the D.C. Fair Skies Coalition to the FAA protesting the shift of flight paths for planes departing Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) from a route over the Potomac River to instead over District of Columbia neighborhoods, creating unbearable noise.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer remarks at the first night of the three-day DC Statehood Constitutional Convention tonight, Monday, June 13, 2016, at 6:30 p.m., at 2235 Shannon Place, SE, Room 2032.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), an annual performer in the long-running comedic event “Will on the Hill,” hosted by the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC), will appear in the performance tonight, June 13, at 7:30 p.m. at Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys will host a Father’s Day roundtable discussion, entitled “Making Young Black Men in the Prime Early Adulthood Years (16–24 years old) Visible and Strong,” on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, at 1:00 p.m., in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building. Caucus Co-Chairs Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL) and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) have chosen Father’s Day to bring increased attention to young African American men who did not finish high school or receive a college education.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host her annual Service Academy College Fair and Sendoff to present her 2016 nominees to the U.S. service academies and to encourage current District of Columbia high school students to attend the service academies today, Thursday, June 9, 2016, from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m., at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library (901 G St. NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she was grateful to her allies on the House Appropriations Committee—Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee Ranking Member José Serrano (D-NY) and Representatives Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Barbara Lee (D-CA)—for offering amendments to remove anti-home-rule riders embedded in the fiscal year 2017 District of Columbia appropriations bill, which passed at today’s committee markup.