Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

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...

Of course, our major concern is the great dilemma of surface transportation and of this committee.

I think we ought to drill down and stop simply talking about cliffs and disaster and let's say what we really mean.