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Eleanor Holmes Norton

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Eleanor Holmes Norton is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for the District of Columbia since 1991. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a strong advocate for D.C. statehood and local autonomy. Throughout her tenure, Norton has focused on issues such as civil rights, education, and public safety, often emphasizing the unique challenges faced by residents of the District of Columbia. She has been vocal against federal interference in local governance, arguing for the rights of D.C. residents to have representation and control over their own affairs.

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Dec 1, 2009

Let me compliment the administration for doing what no administration has ever even tried to do before, and that is to calculate jobs per funding by the United States Government.

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Dec 1, 2009

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

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Dec 1, 2009

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

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Dec 1, 2009

Oh, I don't blame them. You keep paying for the buildings over and over again.

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Dec 1, 2009

We have wasted tons of money of taxpayer dollars.

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Dec 1, 2009

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

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Dec 1, 2009

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?

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Dec 1, 2009

I hate to hold them up because GSA is in fact who is holding them up.

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Dec 1, 2009

There will be criticism of Federal projects that are not preparing for the workforce of the future.

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Dec 1, 2009

It is a largely white male industry. It is an industry that is that way not because of the old discrimination patterns of the past, but because government funding has not been there to assist the industry.

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Oct 26, 2009

This administration, given the circumstances that have forced it into raising sky high deficit, needs to be leveraging every authority it can to drive down the deficit.

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