Eleanor Norton actually said...

"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..."

"I decided this year, in introducing it as my first bill of the year, to call it the 'D.C. Paperwork Reduction Act.'"