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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Arris at The Yards, which is being developed from her bill, the Southeast Federal Center Public-Private Development Act of 2000, today, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. at 1331 4th St. SE.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) continued her efforts to combat the lasting effects of the Great Recession by introducing a bill to help reduce the staggeringly high number of unemployed young Americans, which stands at 2.2 million, representing an unemployment rate of 10.5%, more than double the overall national rate.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will join Americans for Safe Access and medical marijuana advocates from the District of Columbia and across the nation at a Capitol Hill press conference today, Tuesday, March 22, 2016, at 11:30 a.m., at the U.S. Capitol Grounds Demonstration Area 10.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released her letter to President Obama asking that he “make a historic contribution to home rule by delegating to the [District of Columbia] mayor authority to grant clemency for criminal offenses against D.C.”

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) congratulated District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. City Council on a historic home-rule victory after the D.C. Superior Court today upheld the budget autonomy referendum approved by D.C. voters in 2013.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she was gratified that President Obama has nominated her recommendations to fill the two vacancies for commissioners on the U.S. Parole Commission (USPC): Almo Carter, a Staff Attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS); and Larry Glenn, Chief U.S. Probation Officer for the District of the Virgin Islands.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today at the third Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR) hearing examining the Flint lead-in-water crisis got Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to admit that the Flint Water Task Force, which he created last October, has already settled the question of who was responsible for the Flint water crisis: the state of Michigan, through its Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), who, as with past U.S. Supreme Court nominees, will be looking into the background of Merrick Garland, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus, said today that she, of course, remembers that Judge Garland wrote the controversial decision for the 2000 case Alexander v. Daley, in which D.C. residents sought voting rights in the House and Senate.