Eleanor Holmes Norton

If I had to start, I would blow up the place, give it to Mr. Dowd and say, let's start all over again.

That would be based on what? Whether they visit you often or not would be based on what today?

I stress, I am not laying this at the feet of the people at the table, but unless we find out what the facts are, we won't be able to be of any help.

The command center is run by whom?

Chairwoman Norton, I applaud your leadership role and the effort to strike the right balance between security and access to our Federal buildings.

Let me tell you what has not changed.

Very limited approaches anywhere in downtown Washington, sir.

So you lease the garage yourself?

So be careful about your answers. They will test you out.

You will not see me among the Members of Congress advising the President that we ought to get out of Afghanistan right away.

Now, if people are coming for an event, there is a premium put on making sure they get there in time for the event to take place.

So if they assess risks across the board, wouldn't they also have to do some building-by-building assessments?

Now, have you been given guidelines, Federal guidelines?

So what is the difference?

So we are looking for, to help the agencies get some kind of guidance to take seriously.

I am trying not to look backwards. I am trying to be prospective.

So you give the word 'mixed use' new meaning.

I have looked closely at this 5 day week largely because it is one of the few things I think the public is not going to throw their hands up at.

I agree with Mr. Burrus that watch out for calling the decline and fall altogether of the Post Office.

Well, that is very important to have on the record.

The Postal Service is just too slow. You are going to have to reach out to communities.

Just let me say this, as somebody who saw a whole city go down, the longer you wait, the greater the damage and the more management is empowered to make the decisions.

I am having a hard time understanding why we are just studying some of these matters...

I want to take this opportunity to commend the employee representatives of the unions before us...

You see that there have been breaches of national security through what is only politely called inadvertent file sharing.