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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has redoubled her efforts to ensure that the District of Columbia’s right to self-government is preserved as final negotiations begin on a fiscal year 2016 omnibus spending bill, with Republican House and Senate leaders insisting that controversial riders be included in the bill.

Following three days of debate, during which over 100 amendments were considered, the U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan, multi-year surface transportation bill to reauthorize and reform federal highway, transit, and highway safety programs.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called her friend, Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, upon learning of his decision to retire at the end of next year and issued the following statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter she wrote to Architect of the Capitol Stephen Ayers and District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) Director Leif Dormsjo urging support for the construction of a protected bicycle lane facility on Louisiana Avenue NE between Union Station and the U.S. Capitol Grounds.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s subcommittee on Highways and Transit, helped open debate yesterday on the House floor on the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 (STRR).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released an advance copy of Norton’s testimony ahead of a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing on reauthorizing the District of Columbia private school voucher program, scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, November 4, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in 343 Dirksen Senate Office Building.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced new statistics showing District of Columbia residents employed and D.C. small businesses contracted at federal construction projects in the city that were achieved through Norton’s legislative work.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—At an Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing today with the new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator, Peter Neffenger, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) raised the issue of TSA agents being unable to recognize the new District of Columbia license, which was changed from “Washington, D.C.” to “District of Columbia,” in May 2014.