Eleanor Norton actually said...

"It is going to be very hard to get any money from the appropriators or anybody else in the Congress of the United States to do anything."

"I don't want the result of this committee hearing to be that we authorized you, in spite of what looks to be a change in the scope, to go forward without coming back to this committee."

"I just want to say that we have been following the prospectuses as you outline, and I associate myself with your comments."

"But that doesn't mean that the authorizers ought to be ignored."