Eleanor Norton actually said...

"You don't throw people cold into a hearing. You don't have a swearing contest. You try to get at the truth."

"I believe that the time is really not the issue now. It's really the circumstances of the hearing, what's going on, what should go on."

"I think the country gets it, me too. I think this is the worst time with elections coming up to have this hearing and not have due process for a woman."

"It's an unfair contest. All she's trying to do -- because in any case that's going to be very difficult for her is to get what we in the House of Representatives call regular order. Do what you do bef..."