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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a ribbon cutting ceremony for the re-opening of Dance Place, a performing arts facility in the Brookland neighborhood of Northeast, D.C., today at 4:30 p.m. at 3225 8^th Street NE. The building space has been under construction since fall of last year.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that Norton was successful in keeping out the House-passed provisions prohibiting the District of Columbia from enforcing its own gun safety laws and from decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana from the fiscal year 2015 short-term continuing resolution (CR) released by the House yesterday.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced a National Mall Roundtable for Thursday, September 18^th from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. on Capitol Hill. The roundtable will focus on the recently enacted National Park Service (NPS) turf restoration regulations affecting events on the grass, food truck vendors receiving fines from the U.S. Park Police (USPP), food on the Mall, and transportation issues, including bringing a Circulator route to the Mall.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that Senator Thomas Carper's (D-DE) announcement of the first District of Columbia statehood hearing in more than two decades highlights "a season of unusual progress for D.C. statehood." Senator Carper, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is one of the sponsors of the Senate companion bill to Norton's D.C. statehood bill, the New Columbia Admission Act.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) strongly supported Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement today that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will begin a civil rights investigation to determine whether Ferguson, Missouri Police Department routinely engaged in racial profiling or used excessive police force, following the death of Michael Brown.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), said the Department of Labor has opened an important new protection against job discrimination by issuing a directive this week that updates guidance on sex discrimination laws by, for the first time, including protections for claims of discrimination based on transgender status and gender identity. The directive, based on EEOC and Title VII case law, builds upon President Lyndon B.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today she expects the historic Carter G. Woodson Home to be completed by August 2015 with federal funds she requested, and that a National Park Service (NPS) partnership with a non-profit organization (NPO) will complete the two adjoining homes. This is the first-ever National Park Service (NPS) historic site to be completed through a private-public partnership.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced the speakers for the workshops at her annual Job Fair on Thursday, August 21, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Washington Convention Center (800 Mount Vernon Place NW – between 7th and 9th Streets NW). Almost 100 employers with available jobs are expected. The event will begin with workshops, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., on federal jobs available despite the sequester, top jobs available in the D.C. region, and resume tips.