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WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a regular guest on PBS's "To The Contrary," will appear on the show at 9:30 a.m. this Sunday, June 30. The show will also air at various times nationally throughout the week.

WASHINGTON, DC – Concerned by recent hearings that showed valuable vacant federal properties spoiling D.C. neighborhoods, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced a bill to require the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide immediate public notice of federal properties identified as excess to their needs.

WASHINGTON, DC – As the House goes on the Fourth of July recess, and with the District of Columbia at the peak of tourist season, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will introduce three bills tomorrow to make the first significant changes to the Smithsonian Institution in nearly a century.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will get tested and participate in two National HIV Testing Day events today, Thursday, June 27, 2013, to raise awareness of HIV testing and to call attention to the District of Columbia's success in reducing the rate of HIV/AIDS here. From 1:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON, DC – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) has learned that freshman Representative Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI) has been seeking cosponsors to a bill he has drafted, but not yet introduced, that would prohibit the District of Columbia, and no other jurisdiction, from using automated traffic enforcement systems, such as red light and speed cameras, which are used

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote the Chair and Vice Chair of the Joint Committee on the Library and the Architect of the Capitol calling on them to take action to depict the seal of the District of Columbia on the stained-glass windows in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, where the seals of the states are depicted.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a member of the Supreme Court bar and a tenured Georgetown University law professor, issued the following statement on today's Supreme Court ruling in Windsor v. United States, which struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutional.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) issued the following statement on today's Supreme Court Voting Rights Act ruling in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder.