Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

This is a very important hearing. I appreciate this hearing today.

I appreciate your allowing me to testify today, and I look forward to working with you to enact this bill.

Passage of my bill would allow students and researchers in the Nation's Capitol to take part in this important forestry program.

Excluding the District from the definition of state merely because it is not located in an area with a timber industry runs counter to the c...