Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

It is about the Constitution. If you want to change it, there is a remedy, and it requires amending the Constitution of the United States.

Norton emphasizes the need for a constitutional amendment to change D.C.'s status.

09/18/2019

More Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes

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

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

It had everything to do with the fact that the city then was paying not only for $5 billion in pension liability...

Of course, our major concern is the great dilemma of surface transportation and of this committee.