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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will read from her letter to Eulen America today at 12:30 p.m. at a rally at Gravelly Point Park, north of the Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) along the Potomac River, in support of airline contract workers seeking collective bargaining under SEIU 32BJ as part of a nationwide 24-hour strike to go from 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, 2016 to 9:00 p.m. Thursday, March 31, 2016.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks Gay Vietzke upon learning that the Washington Monument’s only elevator had broken down for the fifth time since it reopened in 2014 after extensive repairs to the structure and the elevator following earthquake damage.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) is now accepting submissions for the 35th annual Congressional Art Competition. The competition is open to students in grades 8-12 in public, charter, and private schools across the District of Columbia. The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 22, 2016.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today was among those who were locked down after shots were fired in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will join U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Denise Turner Roth for a National Women’s History Month event at the Excel Academy Public Charter School (2501 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE) today, Friday, March 25, at 10:00 a.m.

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.