Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

This is a structural problem. Your mandate is to keep Louisiana, to keep Mississippi, from getting too much money.

Norton describes the conflict of interests between FEMA and state governments.

07/26/2009

More Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes

I really see us caught in a real bind here, that we have to monitor the contracts.

We are trying to get out of this somehow because we are among those who complain when monitoring isn't done.

This committee has insisted upon it. This is not the goodness of their heart.

We understand that. That doesn't mean that this Subcommittee doesn't have an obligation to review what the government has done.