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WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak at the naming ceremony for the Douglas A. Munro Coast Guard Headquarters Building on the St. Elizabeths West Campus today at 2:15 p.m., at 2703 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE.

WASHINGTON, DC – As Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) promised at her Veterans Day ceremony at the African Civil War Memorial on Monday, she introduced a bill today to allow the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide support to law school clinics that provide pro bono legal and support services to veterans, including assistance with disability claims and appeals, foreclosures, and other cases.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a cosponsor of the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act (HOPE Act), today around 5:00 p.m. will speak on the House floor in favor of the bill to end the federal ban on research into organ donations from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients.

WASHINGTON, DC – To commemorate the District of Columbia’s veterans on Veterans Day, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will honor two of the original Tuskegee Airmen – D.C. residents William Fauntroy, Jr. and Major Louis Anderson – on Monday, November 11, 2013, at 11:00 a.m., at the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum (1925 Vermont Ave NW). She and Mayor Vincent Gray will lay a wreath at the African American Civil War Memorial, a National Park Service memorial commemorating the 200,000 African Americans who fought in the Civil War.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a former chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), hailed the historic Senate passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) to ban sexual orientation or gender identity workplace discrimination.

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced that after the House of Representatives returns from recess next week, the Congresswoman will introduce a bill to grant back pay to federally contracted retail, food, custodial and security service workers who were furloughed during last month’s federal government shutdown.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said that she appreciated the quick final rule issued today by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) implementing her Hatch Act National Capital Region Parity Act by making D.C. a designated locality under the Hatch Act.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, will test drive an electric car to learn more about new all-electric transportation technology, at the Long View Gallery, 1234 9th St. NW, today at 9:30 a.m.