Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I just want to tell the gentleman that the so- called immigrants that he speaks to who send their children to schools in…”

“I just want to tell the gentleman that the so- called immigrants that he speaks to who send their children to schools in Maryland and Virginia live in Maryland and Virginia. Eighty percent of the jobs in the District of Columbia go to people who live in the suburbs. As to the schools in the District of Columbia, as I have indicated, there are waiting lines to get into almost all the charter schools, and the D.C. public schools have improved so much that some of them also have waiting lines. I am pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cummings), our very distinguished ranking member.”