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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will participate in a special program hosted by the National Archives, and presented in partnership with the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress, entitled “D.C. Statehood and Representative Democracy,” today, Thursday, June 25, 2015, from 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m., at the William G. McGowan Theater of the National Archives Museum (700 Constitution Ave. NW).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and a constitutional lawyer, released the following statement after today 5-4 Supreme Court ruling to uphold a key provision of the 1968 Fair Housing Act (FHA), which bars discrimination on the basis of race in housing decisions.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the following statement as opponents of the Affordable Care Act met defeat in their second challenge to the law in today’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was enormously grateful to Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), for introducing today the companion to her bill to grant the District of Columbia statehood with a record 17 original cosponsors, including the top four Senate Democratic leaders: Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Whip Richard Durbin (D-IL), and Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-WA). HSGAC has jurisdiction over D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, after the committee today approved his bill to modernize and improve the daily operations of the District of Columbia Courts, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA).

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGR), questioned Office of Personal Management (OPM) Director Katherine Archuleta at an OGR committee hearing today on whether she would be willing to extend the length of the free, 18-month credit monitoring being offered to current and former federal employees whose personnel data was compromised in a major cyber-attack on OPM databases.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving left a misimpression in an email yesterday to House Members and staff of the source of the prohibition of weapons on U.S. Capitol Grounds. In his email listing what weapons are prohibited on Capitol Grounds, Irving said that District of Columbia law prohibits the listed weapons, including guns, in the Capitol. In fact, federal law (40 USC §5104) prohibits the weapons listed in the email on U.S. Capitol Grounds.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) welcomes violinist Bliss Ananda for a Lunchtime Music on the Mall performance tomorrow, Thursday, June 25, 2015, from noon – 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, at 7th Street and Jefferson Drive SW.