Eleanor Norton actually said...

"If we are going to reauthorize what amounts to a public works agency, we have to understand it."

"I have a feeling that in understanding the value one would have to get beyond the jobs created at that moment."

"We are very pleased with this Agency. We know what it has done. We know why we continue to focus on infrastructure."

"I am not going to deal with a program whose major focus is public infrastructure without finding it out on my own."