Eleanor Holmes Norton

This week a historic vote to give the 600,000 residents of the District of Columbia here in the Nation's capital voting representation in the House was due on the floor and had to be pulled down but only for now. I come to thank the…

Senator Voinovich has rendered especially dedicated service to the District of Columbia.

Thank you for your long and dedicated work for us as you get to do not only this but a lot more for the District of Columbia.

I do want to say that this is a real jobs bill because it's an infrastructure bill at heart about updating our airline and airport infrastructure. But the bill is full of what the country yearns for and why it was so popular here and in…

We have been very fair in trying to keep this an even system on the air and on the ground. I understand that, in the other body, Mr. Warner and Mr. Webb are working still on this issue in conference. What has given them the best head…

For the tax-paying residents of the District of Columbia, I rise in strong support of the health care reform bill before us today. Mr. Speaker, if I could cast a vote on behalf of the residents of the District of Columbia, on final passage…

The American people are fed up with the most costly health care system in the world with too little good health to show for it. We are 38th of 195 countries in life expectancy. Pity those who think they can run on the theme: ``Repeal…

We've had to come to this floor, Mr. Speaker, to speak about the folks who drove this economy into the ground and just how bad it was, but there is good news to raise the spirits of the American people coming from the Labor Department and…

One has to congratulate the other side for chutzpah. After racking up most of what is now the deficit, they have gotten religion on the deficit in the middle of a recession. When conservative and progressive economists say when the only…

I choose a golf course because I am in such great admiration of this golf course, which has served the people of the District of Columbia for now over 70 years and which was started even before I was born, when young women, apparently not…

Medgar Evers was not a student. He was not young and foolish the way the students were. He had a lot to risk, and he risked it all. He and a very few others stepped forward to do that first sit-in at a Woolworth's. He paid a price that…

I thank the generous gentleman from Georgia and our colleague on the other side as well for their words and for bringing forward this resolution honoring the United States Navy, and especially honoring Medgar Evers. There is some context…

We would like within 30 days to get a copy of your small business plan and of the results thus far.

The President has been speaking out about the failure of the banks to follow through with the job creation arm of our sector...

It seems to me, if one were trying to help this administration get out of the quagmire into which it fell by inheritance, one of the things would be to ask: Should we continue to pay for buildings multiple times?

I commend you, Mr. Frazier, you who are supposed to be in the security business...

Nobody from the Federal Government is on the ground for Eleanor Holmes Norton's District's infrastructure funds.

This division of funds between the two agencies was done at what level; were you both asked for your input?

I am not asking to you look at every kind of building you do but for courthouses--in the future, somewhere down the pike--some kind of design prototyping could be perfected.

Now I am interested in these innovative technologies...

We have been moribund on courthouses for some time and this Committee does not intend to move with courthouses.

Thank you both for this very useful testimony.

If, however, you look at what the administration has done, it is a very daring thing to do.

I will tell you what I am going to do if I own one of these buildings in this bad economy: I am going to give you an offer you can't refuse, Mr. Frazier.

Much of that workforce will be people of color and women. These are people who faced intentional discrimination for decades.