Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

Just to make it clear about the so-called 2 million jobs being lost, the Affordable Health Care Act has apparently freed 2 million who wante...

the very act of bringing the budget here cost the District on Wall Street.

the District dare not spend its funds until it gets permission from the Federal Government.

the bundle of issues... encapsulated by having to bring the budget you raise to a body that has no information about it.