Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

"We don't want the Post Office to disintegrate before our very eyes, and this may happen."

"No institution has had a deeper long-term decline. No institution that I can think of has had a deeper long-term decline than the Postal Service."

"You cannot get an answer. I am not saying a straight answer; I am saying an answer from the Federal Government."

"Federal employees and residents in this very dense region have lived with a continuous tension, most of it from a total lack of transparency on a subject of huge urgency involving hazardous materials."