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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said the Department of Justice (DOJ) can do more than the needed federal investigation that is already underway. She said that the Department's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) should be offered to Ferguson, Missouri to help address what appears to be a long-standing breakdown in the relationship between the community and the police in Ferguson, well before the shooting of Michael Brown.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced the rundown of her annual Job Fair, which will be held next Thursday, August 21, 2013, 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). 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. The morning event will be topped off by a Dress for Success Fashion Show.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Norton will accept the Federation of Estelle Witherspoon Lifetime Achievement Award on Thursday, August 14, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. at the Birmingham Sheraton Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. Norton is being honored for her lifelong efforts to create and sustain equitable treatment for low-income people of color in the workplace and under the law. A reception honoring Norton will be held at the historic Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and will be followed by the 47th Anniversary Celebration and 13th Estelle Witherspoon Lifetime Achievement Award Dinner.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that today's Music on the Mall performance is canceled due to rain and will resume next Tuesday, August 19, 2014 with a performance by vocalist Esi Afi Lydia.

Lunchtime Music on the Mall brings local and regional musicians to the National Mall to give visitors as well as federal and other office workers downtown a break from the pace of business in Washington.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a set of recommendations that originated at Norton's D.C. Postal Service Roundtable on Wednesday, and invited residents to continue to contribute suggestions for improvements for D.C. postal services that the Roundtable problem-solving session initiated. Suggestions can be emailed to NortonEvents@mail.house.gov with "Post Office Improvement" in the subject line, and they will be forwarded directly to the D.C. Postmaster.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After the District of Columbia Board of Elections today certified an initiative for the November ballot to legalize marijuana in D.C., Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that she would fight any congressional attempt to block the District from voting on the initiative and, if it is approved by voters, implementing it. The Office of Representative Andy Harris (R-MD), who sponsored a House-passed amendment to the fiscal year 2015 D.C. Appropriations bill that would block D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a D.C. Postal Service Roundtable tomorrow, Wednesday, August 6, at One Judiciary Square from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. to discuss issues of concern to District of Columbia residents about postal service in the city. The Postmaster of the District of Columbia, Gerald A.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter she sent yesterday to Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Acting Administrator Gregory G. Nadeau urging the FHWA to delay the issuance of the CSX Virginia Avenue Tunnel Project's Record of Decision (ROD) until September 15, 2014, to allow oversight of the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT) by the D.C. Council, which has requested more time to do so. The FHWA is set to release the ROD sometime after August 14.