Political Quotes

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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Mar 25, 2009

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

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Mar 25, 2009

When we passed that stimulus bill, I look at it like my grandmamma's sweet potato pie: I want my slice hot out of the oven.

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Mar 25, 2009

So the grid, for example, which is separately in the budget of the Homeland Security Department, that grid will be the grid for the entire St.

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Mar 25, 2009

Yes, it seems to me what the Park Service should be interested in is the preservation of the park land around there and the obligation, it seems to me, of DHS, certainly in exchange for allowing access, to take some responsibility for that.

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Mar 24, 2009

This is perhaps the real moment of truth for the Postal Service and for the Congress of the United States.

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Mar 24, 2009

Even if it were the most efficient corporation in the United States, it could not have been the same Postal Service it was when all of us were children.

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Mar 24, 2009

I don't blame the Postmaster for talking about 5 days a week service. I know he doesn't want to do more layoffs.

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Mar 24, 2009

I think that is a very important thing you are doing in that way.

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Mar 19, 2009

Whereas if they were a bank, they could negotiate in keeping with the state of the market.

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Mar 19, 2009

If you are serious about it, you don't keep filling the backlog and congratulating them for getting the new cases.

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Mar 19, 2009

Your notion is about backlog. That, by the way, is exactly what I meant at the EOC, a 100,000-case backlog.

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Mar 19, 2009

I have respected its expertise. And so when an agency double crosses me, believe me, they ain't got no friends up here then.

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