Eleanor Norton actually said...

"the committee found--and here I am quoting--``a staffing crisis that poses perhaps the greatest threat to the agency.''"

"I have never seen Americans reply or respond to an election by going in huge numbers to the streets simply to protest the new President even before he has done anything."

"I am not sure which parts of the Endangered Species Act apply to my district, the Nation's capital, District of Columbia, except for Members of Congress who may be endangered in the upcoming election."

"The only way to expand in the Nation's capital was to build right on the waterfront."