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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.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today at 2:00 p.m. will visit the site where a CSX freight train carrying hazardous materials (haz mat) derailed yesterday, and will meet with CSX safety and other officials tomorrow.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will reach out to CSX officials for a meeting this week after a CSX freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed 14 cars today near the Rhode Island Ave. Metro Station.

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).