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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the ranking member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, today released a letter she wrote to Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy and National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis to arrange a meeting to discuss bike and pedestrian access to the Pennsylvania Avenue plaza and Lafayette Park area in front of the White House.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In light of the Office of Personal Management’s (OPM) announcement today that a second data breach on OPM databases has affected more than 21.5 million federal employees and retirees, five times more than the 4.2 million individuals reported in the first data breach, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), announced she will introduce legislation with Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) to provide free lifetime identity theft protection coverage to federal employees and retirees whose personnel data has been compromised.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a leader in the effort to cancel the Washington Football Team’s trademark, celebrated today’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee upholding last year’s decision by the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board that the term “Redskins” is disparaging to Native Americans and therefore is ineligible for federal trademark registration.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), today said that her office is in contact with District of Columbia Postmaster Gerald Roane’s office about the planned closing of the Petworth Post Office (4211 9th St. NW), which will take effect on Tuesday, July 28, 2015.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will help cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the new Ben’s Chili Bowl at 1001 H Street NE tomorrow, Wednesday, July 8, at 11:00 a.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes artist Princess Best for a Lunchtime Music on the Mall performance today, Tuesday, July 7, 2015, from noon – 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, at 7th Street and Jefferson Drive SW.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton will walk in today’s Palisades Fourth of July Parade with the Girl Scouts of Greater Washington, D.C. in what has become the District of Columbia’s unofficial community parade.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued a statement today upon reflecting on yesterday’s call from the Washington Navy Yard that drew federal, local, and regional law enforcement.