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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a “Norton in Your Neighborhood” community conversation with the Trinidad Neighborhood Association today, Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., at the Trinidad Recreation Center (1310 Childress St. NE).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that, as expected, the House’s draft fiscal year 2017 District of Columbia Appropriations bill, released today, repeals the Local Budget Autonomy Amendment Act of 2012 (BAA), a referendum ratified overwhelmingly by D.C. voters in 2013 that granted the District budget autonomy, but said, “the House is only half of the story, and I am making every attempt to make sure the Senate does not follow suit.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today expressed her appreciation to the Obama administration for issuing a Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) strongly opposing H.R. 5233, a bill to repeal the Local Budget Autonomy Amendment Act of 2012 (BAA), a referendum ratified overwhelmingly by District of Columbia voters in 2013 that granted the District budget autonomy.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Two top priorities of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Subcommittee, unanimously passed the House today as part of the Public Buildings Reform and Savings Act of 2016.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will testify against a bill to repeal a referendum ratified overwhelmingly by District of Columbia voters in 2013 that granted the District budget autonomy at a House Rules Committee hearing scheduled for Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 3:00 p.m., in H-313 (U.S. Capitol).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today blasted Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) for touting his bill to wipe out all of the District of Columbia’s gun safety laws at the same time an armed gunman had to be shot by the U.S. Secret Service outside of the White House.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that H.R. 5233, a bill to repeal a referendum ratified overwhelmingly by District of Columbia voters in 2013 that granted the District budget autonomy, is scheduled to go before the House Rules Committee on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 3:00 p.m., in H-312 (U.S. Capitol).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that H.R. 5233, a bill to repeal a referendum ratified overwhelmingly by District of Columbia voters in 2013 that granted the District budget autonomy, is scheduled to go to the House floor next week.