Eleanor Holmes Norton

To me, section 210... it doesn't make sense.

I am just trying to hear--I am not casting blame. If anything, we are trying to help, because we are shocked, amazed, and awed that there would not be interoperability among all those related and that you would have to do what looks like a…

And there is also no question in my mind that if you have this attached to both bills, it is law.

I think that the testimony here of very competent officers is all that needs to be said about this appropriation period and interoperability.

I was very adamant, as was the Council and the Mayor, in saying, now, look, we accept what the Supreme Court has done.

I am told that the Stafford Act provides funding for nonprofits. Isn't that ridiculous?

Is there a disability coordinator in this region and, to your knowledge, in other regions?

There just would have been no inauguration, let's face it, without Metro.

It can't go any longer.

If the funding were available, would you be prepared to start--with the design work having been done, as I hear your testimony, would you be prepared to start in building such a decontamination facility in the District of Columbia?

How does the Metro handle three jurisdictions, all with vast amounts of the Federal presence, who have their own quite different gun laws?

the leadership of the House and the Senate are trying earnestly to discover at this point whether there is any effect on homeland security

And what happens if it goes over budget, over the budget that the contractor has agreed to where you have not agreed to changes that cause the increase?

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for your courtesy. I am a member of the full committee, but not of this subcommittee, and I appreciate the opportunity to ask questions today.

Is not a design-build contract one that is for fixed costs? And was the contractor agreeing to provide it for upfront fixed costs and then with certain sanctions if the contractor does not?

Therefore, these States, along with the Federal Government, are responsible for the fact that there are so few minority and female journeymen.

Since the Chairman has put everybody on deadlines, could I ask that in 10 days you get to the Chairman of this Committee what that guidance is?

the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia, Ms. Norton, is authorized to sit on the dias for the purpose of questioning the witnesses during the hearing today.

what good is it to have a cemetery there that is a very historic place that nobody can even get to see?

Recently, GSA and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton co-sponsored a U.S. Small Business Administration 8(a) Certification Seminar attended by more than 30 local business owners.

I am puzzled. By leaving these employees, probably the largest number, in a building without simultaneously beginning the work...

I appreciate your initiative in calling this hearing in particular, so that we keep our eyes on both concerns here.

I want to know is there anything in the bill from the Department that would cause the push-back?

The access--and here you have one part of government saying no to another part of the government.

Can anyone get to that cemetery today?