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WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will attend a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) speaker series event at Woodrow Wilson Senior High School (3950 Chesapeake St. NW) tomorrow, Friday, February 21, 2014 at 10:00 a.m., and will speak about STEM education and about her education initiatives in the District, including assisting Wilson and Roosevelt Senior High Schools in their efforts to get STEM grants and computers through the General Service Administration’s (GSA) Good Neighbor Program.

WASHINGTON, DC – Destination DC, the official convention and tourism corporation for the District of Columbia, in conjunction with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), will welcome members of the House and Senate and congressional staff to the annual “Ask Me About D.C.”

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that on Thursday, February 20, 2014, from 10:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., Norton will kick off the first of regular tours for D.C. residents led by the Congresswoman and her staff of the floor of the House of Representatives and of statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Park in Statuary Hall, and of D.C.’s Frederick Douglass statue and the Sojourner Truth statue in Emancipation Hall.

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that 120 D.C. residents had their taxes prepared for free at the Congresswoman’s annual Tax and Financial Services Fair, notwithstanding the rain and snow that came this morning.

WASHINGTON, DC – Upon returning from the House Democratic Caucus retreat in Cambridge, Maryland today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said she was very proud of Ari Goldman, a 32-year-old D.C. resident who spoke at the retreat this morning about his positive experience obtaining quality, affordable health care coverage through D.C. Health Link, with the help of a free broker.

WASHINGTON, DC – The snow has been cleared and the little that may come Saturday morning will not stop Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton’s (D-DC) annual free Tax and Financial Services Fair tomorrow, Saturday, February 15, 2014, from 10 a.m. – noon at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (801 Mt. Vernon Place NW).

WASHINGTON, DC – At a press conference on Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 11:00 a.m., during her free Tax and Financial Services Fair, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will be joined by Solomon Keene, President of the Hotel Association of Washington, D.C., and Teresa Hinze, Executive Director of Community Tax Aid.

WASHINGTON, DC – With Frederick Douglass’s February 14 birthday approaching, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday introduced a bill to establish a Bicentennial Commission to study ways that the federal government might honor and celebrate the life of Douglass during the bicentennial anniversary of his birth, in 2018.