Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

Indeed the District of Columbia is a double-whammy victim of this shutdown.

I also can't bear the way in which our veterans have been made poster children by my Republican friends.

I have great fears that we will lose people like you as civil servants are going through the issues that now confront all of you.

This bill came forward in the last Congress. It is a bill of some specific urgency as we have seen more events evolve beyond the original 9/...