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WASHINGTON, DC – This week, after returning from a four-day trip as a member of a congressional delegation conference with Members of Parliament to the United Kingdom for the 2014 British American Parliamentary Group Meeting, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) summarized several major issues discussed in the meetings.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today applauded the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee report released yesterday criticizing the U.S. government’s human rights compliance record and again calling on the U.S. to grant equal congressional voting rights in the House and Senate to the residents of the District of Columbia.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to permit the District of Columbia to place its second statue honoring a D.C. historic figure in the U.S. Capitol building, to match the two statues honoring citizens of each state.

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that Christopher “Casey” Cooper’s nomination to become a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia was confirmed by the Senate today.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Black Men and Boys, is leading a week-long initiative with Caucus co-chair Danny Davis (D-IL) and Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) chair Marcia Fudge to encourage African Americans, with a special focus on African American men, to sign up for health insurance before the March 31, 2014 deadline.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today introduced a bill to require the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to collect and maintain data on sexual assaults that occur on airplanes.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the deployment ceremony for the D.C. National Guard’s 1946th Support Detachment today at 10:00 a.m. at the D.C. National Guard Armory (2001 East Capitol St. SE).