Eleanor Holmes Norton

This issue is very bipartisan.

The Postal Service may be the most important agency in the United States today, when you consider the pandemic.

I particularly appreciate this hearing. Amtrak is on the Northeast Corridor, and Washington Union Station is its second busiest station, nationwide.

This hearing is very necessary to clarify matters that were left open when we took the vote already on this bill.

expanded overtime will be allowed in the two weeks before the election.

If that's the case, sir, I want to know why you'd be reducing overtime.

Well, that's very important testimony, Mr. DeJoy, because in some states, we're seeing 10 times the normal volume of mail.

I want you to give that name when you find it to the chair as well.

Even during this pandemic with most agencies down, we had not heard complaints from the Postal Service until Louis DeJoy was appointed Postmaster General. On the contrary, the pandemic had not kept our mail from being faithfully delivered…

Oh, I believe so. I believe so.

Well, Anderson, they have thrown out or at least Biden threw out the old playbook where you look to balancing the ticket for instance, geographically, well, she is from California, she is going to get that state anyway. So he wanted a new…

When we think of--I have been thinking of climate change in the past, we have been talking about and thinking about what we are actually experiencing, heat waves and floods and extreme weather conditions that are already apparent…

Is pay a salient issue here in keeping people in the Federal--IT workers in the Federal work force?

Why would an agency not want everybody in the room?

I understand that IT is now baked into policy design and implementation.

I don't understand what determines or how agencies determine what this committee has long said would be helpful.

I would have thought that they have a major role to play in an agency overall.

Thank you very much.

Being able to change that culture so that the CIO does have that seat at the table is vitally critical.

I really don't understand the resistance to it, and believe that the committee could be helpful in either requiring, through legislation or through regulation, that the CIO be at the table.

That reporting structure is very critical to allowing them to carry out their responsibilities.

the apportionment of representatives shall be based on, quote, 'the actual enumeration of,' and here are the words, 'the whole number of persons.'

the Trump administration's attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from the citizen count appears to me to be plainly unconstitutional.

I strongly support the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act, which, among other things, would address the National Park Service's (NPS) deferred maintenance backlog, a problem that disproportionately affects the National Capital Region…

I thank the gentlewoman from California, Karen Bass, for leading this Special Order to our good colleague and friend, John Lewis. John and I were elected to the House of Representatives about the same time. Actually, he was elected a…