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WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the graduation reception for a 2014 Naval Academy Graduate she nominated for the Academy, Anthony Clay Jr., tomorrow, Friday, May 23, 2014, at 8:00 p.m., at the Navy Yard Conference Center (1454 Parsons Ave SE Bldg. 211).

WASHINGTON, DC – As fully expected, Representative Phil Gingrey’s (R-GA) amendment expressing the sense of Congress – which has no legal effect – that active duty military personnel in their private capacity should be exempt from the gun safety laws of the District of Columbia, but not elsewhere, passed the House last night as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (NDAA).

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that a bipartisan bill to redesignate Pershing Park, a federal park in the District of Columbia, as the “National World War I Memorial” and preserve the District of Columbia War Memorial for D.C. veterans only today passed as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 (NDAA).

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) spoke with National Park Service (NPS) Superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks Robert Vogel yesterday regarding reports of elevator glitches in the Washington Monument, following the temporary elevator breakdown last week.

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton got the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) to place a groundwater testing well in a roadway rather than a residential park in the Spring Valley neighborhood in Northwest D.C.

WASHINGTON, DC – Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold a National Park Service (NPS) town hall meeting with expert panelists to explore many new ideas for the city’s federal parks and how residents can work with NPS, which owns most of the city’s parks, to enliven D.C.’s green spaces and adapt them to the needs of the individual neighborhoods where they are located.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in 226 Dirksen Senate Office Building 226, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will introduce Randolph Moss at his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, as recommended to President Obama by the Congresswoman.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the day Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) held a press conference with national groups to warn appropriators not to use the District of Columbia as a vehicle, Representative Phil Gingrey (R-GA) filed an amendment in the House Rules Committee to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 that expresses the sense of the Congress that active duty military personnel in their private capacity should be exempt from the gun safety laws of D.C., but not those of any other jurisdiction.