Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

"I think the country gets it, me too. I think this is the worst time with elections coming up to have this hearing and not have due process for a woman."

"It's an unfair contest. All she's trying to do -- because in any case that's going to be very difficult for her is to get what we in the House of Representatives call regular order. Do what you do bef..."

"I think they are going to try to go ahead without her. And if they do, they are making a serious mistake, because then everyone is going to say -- if it was a sham to have a hearing with no investigat..."

"While we are fixing that, we must not take our eyes off of these fast-moving technological advances."