Eleanor Norton actually said...

"Now, this was, of course, the first test ever done. But you can't know if there are problems if you don't do a test."

"So there is only one issue here. And that issue, it seems to me, is whether HHS followed or failed to follow the objective procedures for awarding a grant to victims, whoever is the organization."

"The only thing I find in the act is the prohibition on organizations that support the legalization of prostitution, and no one has raised that as an issue here."

"This is a rare, if not unprecedented, hearing. And I just want to say for the record, this is a hearing about public money."