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WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) bill to give the Capitol Police the permanent authority to issue permits for commercial filming and photography in Union Square (the area just below the west side of the Capitol, near the Botanic Gardens) was included in the fiscal year 2014 appropriations bill passed by the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch today.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that the 50 percent cut to the funding for the District of Columbia Tuition Assistance Grant Program (DCTAG) in the House's draft fiscal year 2014 Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill, "simply cannot and will not stand." The bill, which will be marked up tomorrow, provides $15 million for DCTAG, compared to the fiscal year 2013 enacted level of $30 million.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that indie songwriter and vocalist Margot MacDonald, the current Washington Area Music Association "Artist of the Year," will perform at Lunchtime Music on the Mall tomorrow, Tuesday, July 9, 2013, from noon to 1:00 p.m. on the National Mall, on Madison Dr. SW, between 4th St. and 7th St., directly across from the steps of the National Gallery of Art. Lunchtime Music on the Mall, sponsored by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the D.C.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill today to name the new U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters on the St. Elizabeths West Campus the "Douglas A. Munro Coast Guard Headquarters Building," for Signalman First Class Munroe, the Coast Guard's only Medal of Honor recipient, who died heroically during a volunteer assignment in World War II. Norton wants to get the bill through the Congress in time for the August opening of the Coast Guard building in the District of Columbia's Ward 8.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday led an inspection of the Library of Congress Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building, after being informed that the District of Columbia seal was not included among the state seals on the stained-glass windows in the iconic Main Reading Room. Norton was accompanied by Luis Landau, a D.C.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today expressed her personal sadness upon hearing of the passing of her friend former Representative William H. Gray III, the first African American Majority Whip of the House and first African American Chair of the House Budget Committee. Norton's statement follows.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) thanked a coalition of over 50 national organizations for sending letters to House and Senate appropriators today to ensure that during the fiscal year 2014 appropriations process, which is now underway, D.C. home rule is respected and that anti-home rule riders are not added to D.C.'s appropriations bill. The coalition, led by DC Vote, consists of groups whose issues – reproductive rights, needle exchange, and gun safety – have been attacked in the past, using the District as a vehicle.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today applauded the launch of a national campaign, "We Are DC," to raise awareness and mobilize nationwide support for protecting the reproductive rights of the District of Columbia's women from federal interference.