Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...
It is difficult to understand how somebody who has your, the agency's mandate now, with this extra backlog, in addition to whatever backlog you may have had, it is going to be very difficult to do what is the central function of the agency and pay a lot of attention, as you now require, given what has been discovered, to conferences.
Context
Norton questions the agency's ability to manage training and backlog effectively.
10/29/2013