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WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced growing support for Norton’s bill to overturn an unprecedented federal court decision that strips many federal employees of due process rights to independent review of an

WASHINGTON, DC – Following House passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that “the prospect of causing another federal government shutdown finally broke the no-compromise House Republicans and forced them to agree to a much-needed budget deal.”

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that the final rule making the District of Columbia a designated locality under the Hatch Act, which permits federal employees who live in D.C. to run for partisan political office in local elections as independents, has taken effect this week, beginning Monday.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak today at an event to celebrate the development and construction progress at the Yards on the Southeast Waterfront, at 10:30 a.m., at 301 Water Street SE.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, during a week of remembrance of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting on December 14, 2012, almost a year ago, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at a vigil in remembrance of the tragic shooting and for all victims of gun violence throughout the country, including the more than 30,000 lives lost each year to gun violence, at 3:45 p.m., at the Washington National Cathedral (3101 Wisconsin Ave NW).

WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today, profoundly disappointed that 1.3 million Americans are slated to lose unemployment insurance after December 28, 2013, took separate actions today aimed at keeping Congress from “putting the long-term unemployed on the backburner.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), the Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Highways and Transit Subcommittee, today introduced a bill to extend federal tax benefits for mass transit commutes, and to encourage commuters to use mass transit by equalizing tax benefits for mass transit and parking.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that the reintroduction of the National Rifle Association (NRA)-backed bill (H.R. 3689) to wipe out D.C.’s gun laws, sponsored by Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), this week, as the nation remembers the tragic Newtown shooting on its one-year anniversary, was an act of “insensitive disrespect.”