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WASHINGTON, DC – To kick-off Mother's Day weekend, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today at 3:00 p.m. will speak at the District of Columbia Department of Corrections (1901 E St. SE) to female inmates in the Adjust Our Attitude Training Program, and hear poetry and songs that are part of their rehabilitation program. The program serves 130 women between the ages of 18 and 60, who will hear from the Congresswoman about better choices and options.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak today at 4:30 p.m., at the D.C. federal courthouse (333 Constitution Ave NW) for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's investiture as a U.S. district court judge in the District of Columbia. Jackson, who most recently served as Vice Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, is the first African American woman to serve on the district court in D.C. in 32 years, and only the second to ever serve. Norton recommended her to President Obama.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) spoke today at a Congressional Progressive Caucus press conference featuring low-wage D.C. residents and other low-wage workers, to expose low wages facilitated by the federal government and to announce a study, unveiled today by the public policy organization Demos, examining the low wages and their negative effects on the nation's economy.

WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) yesterday reintroduced a bill that would ban all abortions in the District of Columbia after 20 weeks (with limited exceptions). Last Congress, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), her pro-choice congressional allies and a coalition of 100 national and local organizations defeated the House version of the bill in a vote on the House floor, while Lee's bill did not receive a hearing or a vote in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), will join low-wage District of Columbia residents, other low-wage workers from this region, CPC co-chairs Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), and other CPC members at a press conference on federal government complicity in low wages paid to private sector workers in federal buildings or facilities, on Wednesday at 9 a.m. in Union Station.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reintroduced her Congress Leads By Example Act of 2013, during Public Service Recognition Week, to subject Congress and its agencies to health and safety standards and civil rights laws that currently apply to executive branch agencies and private sector employers, but not to Congress. The bill, which Norton also introduced in 2011, is a follow up to her 2010 hearings and investigation on safety violations in the U.S.

WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama today signed into law Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) District of Columbia Chief Financial Officer Vacancy Act, to clarify the authority of the Mayor of the District to fill a vacancy in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on an interim basis. The mayor has had authority to appoint, with council approval, the permanent CFO since the office was created.