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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called on Donald Trump to apologize and make the current controversy that he does not need and the country could certainly do without, go away. Trump won a competition to remodel the Old Post Office building downtown into a luxury hotel as a result of a Norton bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the EEOC’s founding today, Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at the EEOC Headquarters Training Center (131 M St. NE). EEOC Chair Jenny R. Yang, civil rights leaders, and past and present EEOC employees will also offer remarks.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement after President Obama announced that the Administration has reached a deal with Cuba to re-establish diplomatic relations and re-open embassies.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that today’s report on HIV/AIDS in the District of Columbia that shows significant progress in the city’s efforts to combat HIV/AIDS will help her in the upcoming appropriations process. Norton said the official report, issued by the District, will reinvigorate her efforts to keep the deadly rider that banned D.C. from using its local funds for needle exchange from being re-imposed and will help her to continue to get an extra $5 million in annual federal funding to combat HIV/AIDS in the District.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Norton’s Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission, chaired by Pauline Schneider, is accepting applications until Monday, July 13, 2015, to fill the position of U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes Hip-Hop theater artist Goldie E. Patrick for a Lunchtime Music on the Mall performance today, Tuesday, June 30, 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 (D-DC) this evening will give the keynote address at a “Race and the Labor Movement Town Hall,” hosted by the AFL-CIO and the NAACP-District of Columbia chapter, at 6:00 p.m., at the AFL-CIO headquarters (815 16th St. NW). Norton’s address and the subsequent panel and town hall discussion will focus on the intersection between the labor and civil rights movements and their shared goals.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a member of the Supreme Court bar and a tenured Georgetown University law professor, issued the following statement on today’s Supreme Court 5-4 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, ruling that the 14th Amendment requires all states to license marriages between same-sex couples.