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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.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that as the nation on Saturday celebrates 239 years since declaring its independence from Great Britain because of taxation without representation, Congress must take the nation’s founding slogan to heart and grant the District of Columbia statehood.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) again thanked House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for her longtime support for autonomy, voting rights and statehood for the District of Columbia, after Leader Pelosi made Norton’s tweet today on D.C. statehood the “Digital Dems Early Bird,” which is a Member tweet each workday on a Democratic Caucus priority that Members are asked to retweet.

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.