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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee, tomorrow will address the American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) 40^th Annual Legislative Conference at 9:00 a.m. at the J.W. Marriot Hotel (1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW). Norton will emphasize the increasingly serious effect of delay of a surface transportation reauthorization bill on the nation's transit and bus systems.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the funeral service for former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, the nation's first popularly elected African American senator, on Tuesday, March 10, at 11:00 a.m. at the Washington National Cathedral (3101 Wisconsin Avenue NW). U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will also deliver remarks at the service.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced Marie Johns as the newest member of Norton's Federal Law Enforcement Nominating Commission. The Commission screens and recommends candidates for important federal law enforcement positions in D.C from whom Norton chooses to send to the President as her recommendation. Johns, currently the Managing Member of the law firm Leftwich, LLC, formerly served as President of Verizon, Washington, D.C. She was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—After requesting a waiver to allow sledding on Capitol Grounds for this snowstorm was denied last night by the U.S. Capitol Police Board, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today was gratified to hear reports that dozens of residents had succeeded in sledding on the Capitol Grounds after all. U.S. Capitol Police informed parents that the sledding ban was still in effect, but did not prevent kids from sledding.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) tomorrow will join a bipartisan delegation of Members of Congress traveling to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the 50^th anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and Bloody Sunday, which occurred on March 7, 1965, when hundreds of civil rights activists of every background marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and were met with brutally violent attacks by local police. The historic events in Selma directly led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was signed into law on August 9, 1965.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement in response to the U.S. Capitol Police Board's letter denying her request for a waiver of the sledding ban on Capitol Grounds effective from March 5-8 in anticipation of a snowstorm hitting the Washington, D.C. area:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today spoke at a press conference hosted by Unity Health Care at its Parkeside Health Center to help announce Unity's role in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) groundbreaking study treating patients for hepatitis C with a newly approved medication, Harvoni, at community sites. The District of Columbia is one of 11 sites participating in the study. There may be as many as 45,000 D.C. residents with chronic hepatitis C infection and most do not know it.