Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

"the problem we have here is a move it or lose it problem."

"The stimulus funds are calculated to get out fast, produce jobs immediately, and of course to get the work done the Federal Government needs to have done in the States and in the Federal Government."

"It would be such a tragedy if we had a series of audits that because we were trying to get jobs for Americans as quickly as possible that the prediction that nobody can get money out that quick withou..."

"the issue is obligation."