PRESS RELEASE The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that a provision requiring the armed services to display the D.C. and territorial flags whenever the flags of the 50 states are displayed passed the Senate today as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 Conference Report. The House passed the conference report on Thursday, and now goes to the President. The conference committee also rejected a House-passed provision that expressed the sense of the Congress that active duty members of the military should be exempt from the gun laws of only the District of Columbia. Norton’s fight for respect for the D.C. flag, service members, and veterans began this year when D.C. resident and fire investigator Tomi Rucker wrote to the Congresswoman expressing her dismay that the Navy did not display the D.C. flag to honor her son, Seaman Jonathan Rucker, during his boot-camp graduation ceremony at Naval Stat...