Eleanor Norton actually said...

"It looks like nobody would be punished if we did at the Federal level what the States have already done at their level."

"I am used to Congress slowing things up, we do it all the time."

"I want to work with him to find a way to get through this conundrum that the States have somehow managed to get through."

"They say to us that they are frustrated by the slow pace and the needless bureaucracy."