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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was particularly grateful that her work to get District of Columbia local judges appointed had culminated with the Senate confirming two Superior Court judges, Darlene Soltys and Robert Salerno, the day before it adjourned for the year.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, worked to get expanded identity theft coverage for current, former and prospective federal employees whose personal information was compromised by Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breaches.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, today said that the tax extenders bill, which passed the House yesterday and the Senate today, contains her bill to permanently restore parity between pre-tax commuter transit and parking benefits, both of which will be $255 per month.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— In the wake of the historic Paris climate accord reached this past weekend, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that, since climate change is already underway, fueling unprecedented weather patterns and rising waters, the federal government must do more to help states and localities prepare for and cope with natural disasters. Therefore, Norton today introduced the FEMA Help and Education for Local Partners Act (FEMA HELP Act) to create a federal multi-agency team, led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to provide coordinated disaster assistance to state, local, tribal, and territorial governments.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will attend the United Planning Organization Annual Capitol Hill Holiday event for underprivileged children at the Capitol today, Thursday, December 17, 2015, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., in 345 Cannon House Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Following weeks of anti-Muslim bigotry and acts of hatred, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D-DC) joined Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Joe Crowley (D-NY), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Mike Honda (D-CA), Keith Ellison (D-MN), and André Carson (D-IN), along with 63 original cosponsors, to introduce legislation condemning violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslim-Americans.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the fiscal year 2016 omnibus appropriations bill, released today, is a major victory for the District of Columbia, containing a record $40 million for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG), which is an increase of $10 million from last year’s level, has no new anti-home-rule riders, exempts D.C. from a shutdown in fiscal year 2017, provides the full $150 million for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) capital improvements, gives full funding to the Congresswoman’s major economic development project: the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) complex at St. Elizabeths in Ward 8, addresses airplane noise, contains her amendment to combat racial profiling, permits sledding on Capitol Hill, and provides other critical funding for the District that she requested.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said she was “relieved, candidly, as expected,” that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr.’s decision—that D.C.’s “good reason” requirement for issuing a concealed carry permit was unconstitutional—because the decision was outside his jurisdiction as a visiting judge.