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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will give opening remarks at a 40th anniversary celebration for Levine Music today, Saturday, May 7, 2016, at 2:00 p.m., at the Town Hall Education Arts & Recreation Campus—THEARC (1901 Mississippi Ave. SE).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced she will host a press conference with District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and a coalition of national organizations to protect D.C.’s local laws during the upcoming fiscal year 2017 appropriations process on Monday, May 9, 2015, at 2:30 p.m., in 234 Cannon House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee, today said that she will use a Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, on Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) safety to question WMATA on the unprecedented safety overhaul, announced today, and whether the one-year period will be sufficient to reach acceptable safety standards outlined by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—After raising several questions on WAMU’s “The Kojo Nnamdi Show,” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will meet with CSX officials today, May 5, 2016, at 4:30 p.m., in 2136 Rayburn House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she will vigorously defend the budget autonomy referendum approved by District of Columbia voters in 2013 from congressional interference at a Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations hearing scheduled for Thursday, May 12, 2016, at 2:00 p.m., in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she did not want to overly alarm Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) passengers about today’s National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) final investigative hearing on the January 12, 2015 smoke incident at L’Enfant Plaza Station, but at the same time said no one should be comforted by the NTSB’s findings about the state of Metro safety procedures in the event of an emergency.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—After today visiting the site where a CSX freight train carrying hazardous material derailed on Sunday, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be meeting with Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) officials on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. Norton was assured by CSX officials that transportation would be restored on the tracks this week, likely by Tuesday evening.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that when the House returns from recess next week, she will introduce a resolution to honor federal employees for their work through times of war and peace, recession and prosperity, and global instability and uncertainty.