Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

By the time the Democrats took control of the Congress, its chair, Nydia Velazquez, was so disgusted with the program.

Norton describes Velazquez's discontent with the program's abuses.

06/25/2013

More Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes

To continue to deny statehood to 702,000 residents of Washington, DC, is a failure of the Members of this body to uphold their oath of offic...

The voting rights of American citizens and their representatives Congress have never been and never will be contingent on state and local of...

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.

That is all we ask, that Congress give us what it has given the citizens of 37 other states--full citizenship, statehood.