Eleanor Norton actually said...

"I had not thought about that as a responsibility that the States already have."

"I liked the way your bill was framed. That is why I was a co-sponsor, because it does seem to me that particularly in light of federalism, if the Federal Government wants you to do something, you offe..."

"Does that tell me that you need a disaster in order to get a building code? Would that not be terrible?"

"In my experience, you never get legislation passed in the Congress by showing dollars and cents saved."