Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

"What a beautiful courthouse, the Prettyman Courthouse is."

"I have been on this committee for 20 years. I have never seen you come back to this committee and say to the committee, we have new specifications that we need."

"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."