Spotted: Eleanor Holmes Norton participating in the National Food Stamp Challenge at Safeway

Tom Williams

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) was spotted at Safeway grocery store yesterday with local DC resident Vanessa Sherrie to kick off the National Food Stamp Challenge. The challenge asks participants spend $31.50 on a week's worth of groceries, which is the average allotment of the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, formerly called Food Stamps. Also seen with Del. Norton was Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Jan Schakowsky, (D-Ill), and Donna Christensen, (D-V.I).