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WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Randolph Moss's nomination to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia was approved today by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Moss's nomination was recommended to President Obama by Norton.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer brief remarks at the 25^th anniversary of The Foundation For Ethnic Understanding, Thursday, June 19, 2014, from 4-6 p.m. at the Mansfield Room (S-207) of the United States Capitol. This event commemorates the date when three student civil rights activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were killed in Mississippi, one African American and two Jewish Americans.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a leader in the effort to cancel the Washington Football Team's trademark and to convince the team's owner and the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) to voluntarily change the team's name, today celebrated the ruling by the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board that the term "Redskins" is disparaging to Native Americans, thereby canceling federal registrations for the "Redskins" trademarks.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she will be one of the recipients of the "Highway Safety Hero" Award, to be presented today, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, at 3:30 p.m. at the Sewell/Belmont House on Capitol Hill (144 Constitution Avenue NE). Advocates for Highway & Auto Safety will honor Norton, the ranking member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, for her leadership in advancing truck safety.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the school year in the District of Columbia and across the country ends, bringing thousands of people to Washington to open the summer season, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reintroduced the United States Commission on an Open Society with Security Act. The Congresswoman's bill addresses the need for balance by establishing a commission of experts from a broad spectrum of disciplines to investigate how to maintain democratic traditions of openness and access while responding adequately to the substantial security threats posed by terrorism.