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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, praised President Obama for including key components of her recently introduced Restore Opportunity, Strengthen, and Improve the Economy (ROSIE) Act in an Executive Order (EO) issued today that provides workplace protections for federal contract workers.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, today released the following statement upon being informed of the General Services Administration's (GSA) shortlist of potential sites for the new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters. The shortlist includes the Greenbelt Metro Station Site and Landover Mall Site in Prince George's County, MD, and the GSA Springfield/Franconia Warehouse Complex in Fairfax County, VA.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will participate in today's Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) ad hoc hearing at 2:00 p.m. in the House Energy and Commerce Committee room on the influx of Central American unaccompanied minors to the U.S. The District has one of the largest concentrations of Central Americans in the nation, with nearly 60,000 residents from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The CPC's ad hoc hearing features testimony from unaccompanied minors and expert witnesses.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management, introduced yesterday the Department of Energy (DOE) Forrestal Complex Redevelopment Act, which directs the General Services Administrator (GSA) to redevelop the Forrestal Complex at 1000 Independence Avenue SW, and enter into public-private partnerships in accordance with the National Capital Planning Commission's (NCPC) SW Ecodistrict Plan.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – To follow up on her meeting with her Congressional Latino Council and other D.C. Latino leaders three weeks ago, the office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter Norton sent to the president of the District of Columbia Bar, Brigida Benitez, inquiring about the Bar's efforts to help address the needs of unaccompanied minors from Central America crossing the U.S. border and being sent to various jurisdictions, including the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will join hundreds of federal contract workers tomorrow in front of Union Station to introduce the Restore Opportunity, Strengthen, and Improve the Economy (ROSIE) Act. The ROSIE Act incentivizes, through preferential points awarded in the bidding process, federal government contractors who support workers' collective bargaining, pay living wages and benefits, stop wage theft, and do not pay CEOs excessive salaries.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After Saturday's federal district court ruling that the District of Columbia's total ban on the carrying of handguns in public is unconstitutional, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) asked whether Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY), who sponsored a House-passed amendment to prohibit D.C. from spending its local funds to enforce its local gun laws, would finally seek to repeal the only remaining law – a federal law – that bars guns in the Capitol complex. Prior to the court's decision, it was a violation of both D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released the following statement today in response to U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Scullin's ruling to strike down the District of Columbia's ban on carrying a handgun outside of the home: