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The United States did it again at the 2012 Olympics, coming away with more medals than any other nation. That didn't rock the world, but how we did it should have -- American women stole the show! Women's sports can rarely be found on prime-time broadcast television. Yet U.S. women left London with significantly more medals than our men, who dominate our airwaves. U.S. women took 58 medals, 13 more than our men (58-45), including 29 gold medals, 12 more than the men (29-17). Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Brunei sent their first women to the games this year, but the U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will hold her annual Jobs and Opportunities Fair on Thursday, August 23, 2012, featuring "Top Ten Job Tips" workshops and a "Ready to Work" fashion show from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., and the Job Fair from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Washington Convention Center (800 Mount Vernon Place NW – near New York Avenue NW and 7th Street NW). This year's job fair will feature nearly 100 employers with open jobs. The 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will host a reception to welcome the new students from The University of the District of Columbia's David A. Clark School of Law on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 in the Rayburn Foyer at 5:00 p.m. The annual reception will include the entering law school class, UDC president Dr. Allen Sessoms, and School of Law Dean Katherine Broderick, as well as administration and faculty members.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released the list of witnesses who will appear at her roundtable hearing on hiring at federal construction projects in the District on Tuesday, August 21 at Rayburn House Office Building Room 2167 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Norton scheduled this hearing after reviewing a monthly report revealing that a disappointing number of D.C. residents were being hired at a number of federal construction sites in the city.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that Luke Reddick will be back by popular demand to bring his contemporary music on guitar and harmonica to the Lunchtime Music on the Mall program Tuesday, August 14, 2012 from noon to 1:30 p.m. on the National Mall near the Smithsonian Metro Station. Lunchtime Music on the Mall is sponsored by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and the National Park Service in cooperation with Norton's office.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today said the Senate Appropriations Committee had matched the House by passing a fiscal year 2013 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill that would allow continued commercial filming and photography in Union Square (the area just below the west side of the Capitol, near the Botanic Gardens), after it was transferred last year from the National Park Service (NPS) to the Architect of the Capitol (AOC). The House-passed fiscal year 2013 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill includes a similar provision.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Congress left town yesterday for its August recess, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) co-sponsored a bill introduced by Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA), Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, that would move the District's Frederick Douglass Statue into the Capitol's Emancipation Hall. The bill, H.R. 6336, marks the first time in the House that D.C. has seen the possibility of having the Douglass statue brought into the Capitol. The bill is similar to a concurrent resolution introduced in June by Sen.