Eleanor Norton actually said...

"This isn't testimony. Testimony has to do with agency policy. This is a policy of the Congress of the United States."

"I have drawn this to the attention of the administration in my own report to them or my own transition memo to them, that they are caged in a budgeting notion of real estate."

"I am certainly willing to talk to the appropriators as we go through this prospect."

"This administration, given the circumstances that have forced it into raising sky high deficit, needs to be leveraging every authority it can to drive down the deficit."