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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that she will be personally briefed tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Washington Field Office Assistant Director Paul Abbate on security in the District of Columbia following the terrorist attacks in Paris this past weekend and a new threat made by ISIL specifically against the nation’s capital.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a member of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, will speak at a press conference to announce the creation of a Transgender Equality Task Force, of which she is a founding member, today, Tuesday, November 16, 2015, at 10:30 a.m., at the House Triangle (SE corner of U.S. Capitol).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will give remarks this evening, Monday, November 16, 2015, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (Madison Dr. NW, between 14th and 15th Streets NW) at 5:30 p.m., to open the museum’s “Commemorate and Celebrate Freedom” three-day event, which marks the completion of the museum’s external construction.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee, and one of the “Big Four” transportation leaders that introduced the six-year surface transportation bill that passed the House earlier this month, today will manage a short-term surface transportation reauthorization bill on the House floor that will extend Federal transportation programs until December 4, 2015.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the briefing on District of Columbia statehood with a screening of HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver D.C. statehood segment followed by a question and answer segment, scheduled for Tuesday, November 17, 2015, must be postponed.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today issued the following statement following reports that a U.S. Secret Service uniformed officer has been charged with soliciting a 14-year-old girl for sex, the result of a sting operation.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced a victory for the Glover Park community in the agreement by the National Park Service (NPS) to consider installing a feature in Glover Archbold Park honoring Rachel Carson, the environmental pioneer and an inspiration for the development of the environmental movement.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today expressed her deep gratitude to District of Columbia veterans and other veterans across the nation for their service and sacrifice and introduced a new bill for veterans.