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WASHINGTON, DC – At a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee markup today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she had cosponsored a bill to amend the Height Act, following a consensus reached on the final bill between D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, as she had urged them to do in a December 2013 letter.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) bill to give the District of Columbia Courts, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) and the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA) authority routinely held by most federal agencies was approved today by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, March 11, 2014, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, will hold a roundtable discussion on issues facing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), entitled Metro in Transition for 21st Century Riders: What is Needed and What to Expect.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, which will be writing a surface transportation reauthorization bill this year, will speak at the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) legislative conference tomorrow, Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 9:00 a.m., at the J.W. Marriot Hotel (1331 Pennsylvania Ave NW).

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today asked the National Park Service (NPS) to reactivate the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site’s (Council House) Advisory Commission, and to meet with the relevant community groups and stakeholders to update them on plans to assess and rehabilitate the site and to get their advice and counsel.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak and cut the cake at the 100th anniversary celebration for the Hotel Harrington, the oldest continuously operating hotel in the District, today at 5:00 p.m., at 432 11th St. NW.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote to the National Park Service (NPS) for a written progress report in the next 30 days on the status of the Rock Creek Park trail project and its Environmental Assessment (EA), as well as a timeline for next steps in the process.