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WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that Norton’s annual free Tax and Financial Services Fair will be held on Saturday, February 15, 2014, from 10 a.m. – noon at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (801 Mt. Vernon Place NW).

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the Congresswoman, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, will hold a roundtable discussion on issues facing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) on Wednesday, January 22, 2013, at 6:00 p.m., at One Judiciary Square (441 4th St. NW), in the Old Council Chambers on the first floor.

WASHINGTON, DC – As the 125th anniversary of Rock Creek Park approaches, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to redesignate the D.C. portion of Rock Creek Park as “Rock Creek National Park in the District of Columbia.”

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

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that the Congresswoman, the Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, has been selected to join a special bipartisan 11-member panel to explore the current state of public-private partnerships across all modes of transportation and infrastructure, and how the public investment in infrastructure can be used to attract private resources.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the House Judiciary Committee’s passage of H.R. 7, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Committee, for offering an amendment at today’s committee markup of the bill to strike a provision that would permanently ban D.C. from spending its own local funds on abortion services for low-income women, and would define D.C. as part of the federal government for purposes of abortion.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today made the following statement on Congressman Jim Moran’s (D-VA) announcement that he will not seek reelection in 2014.

WASHINGTON, DC – Tomorrow, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a member of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, will speak at a press conference in advance of the markup of H.R. 7.