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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the newest set of available data (May 2016) on the number of District of Columbia residents hired to work at federal construction sites in the District and D.C. small businesses with subcontracts at the sites.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that today’s Music on the Mall performance is canceled due to a heat advisory warning and will resume next Thursday, July 21, 2016.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As the House recesses today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will introduce District of Columbia resident Nardyne Jefferies, whose daughter, Brishell Jones, was shot and killed on March 30, 2010, at a National Speak Out on gun violence, entitled “Lighting the Way: The Path Forward on Gun Violence,” hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus and the Democratic Caucus tonight, Thursday, July 14, 2016, at 7:30 p.m., on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) for introducing a bill to use the authoritarian federal power of Congress to interfere and alter the District of Columbia’s local occupational licensing laws.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in favor of Judge Florence Pan’s nomination to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, as recommended by the Congresswoman to President Obama.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) today passed two bills introduced by Norton to improve the District of Columbia’s local justice system. Under the Home Rule Act of 1973, Congress has the exclusive authority to regulate the D.C. courts.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) hearing on an anti-LGBTQ bill, the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), protested bitterly that the bill “classified the District of Columbia as part of the federal government in order to nullify D.C.’s strong anti-discrimination laws and promote discrimination against D.C.’s LGBTQ residents.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that House and Senate Republicans, in their latest attack on LGBT people in the District of Columbia, “have rewritten an anti-LGBT bill, the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), to specifically target D.C.'s LGBT community, an abuse of congressional authority over the District and an official attempt to deepen discrimination against LGBT Americans here and throughout the country.”