Eleanor Norton actually said...

"If compromise is to be the way of the lame duck and the way of the 113th Congress, I certainly hope we won't open that issue."

"The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which we call MWAA, is a so-called independent public body, but it was created by Congress."

"I do want to say for the record that what Mr. Connolly proposes is essentially a takeover of the Airports Authority by the State of Virginia."

"I would have absolutely no objection to looking at that 1986 act."