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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will give the opening remarks at a ceremony honoring Joseph Benjamin Noel, a U.S. Navy sailor and Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, who died at St. Elizabeths Hospital in 1882 and was buried under a headstone that misspelled his name and failed to acknowledge his bravery, today, Friday, April 29, 2016, at 11:00 a.m., at St. Elizabeths Hospital Cemetery (East Campus, Entrance on Bruce PL. SE).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter that she sent to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a report on federal advertising contracts and subcontracts with minority-owned newspapers and media companies.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she was grateful to the Senate Judiciary Committee for voting to confirm Patrick Burke to serve as U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia. Burke, whom Norton recommended to the President, is currently an Assistant Chief in the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement regarding U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx’s announcement today that he will appoint three new federal representatives to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) Board of Directors.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called Todd Edelman and Florence Pan to inform them that President Obama would nominate them to become judges on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, as recommended by Norton. Edelman and Pan both currently serve as Associate Judges on the Superior Court for the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a congressional roundtable on federal construction projects in the District of Columbia featuring construction companies on the projects, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), District of Columbia workers and D.C. small businesses contracted at the sites on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at 6:00 p.m., in 2253 Rayburn House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be interviewed at the International Association of Exhibitions and Events’ (IAEE) Women's Leadership Forum today, Tuesday, April 26, 2016, at 3:30 p.m., at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (801 Mt. Vernon PL. NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today thanked the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) for voting to confirm three D.C. Superior Court nominees—Julie H. Becker, Steven N. Berk, and Elizabeth C. Wingo.