Eleanor Holmes Norton

I am beginning to wonder about this census in many ways.

The census is off to a very tough start.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I don't even want to speak to the underlying issue. I want to speak to what it is we are doing here with congressional power. The President signed a bill. He didn't have to. He could have…

Keeping Stormy Daniels and that kind of information from the electorate in order that the public not know something that might well influence who would become president of the United States.

Well, they really should believe what he says now because he can't afford to dig his grave any deeper, and he's already in for three years.

Oh, that has all the signs of a threat.

I think it is important that you quickly held this hearing so we can learn from it.

This act does something that I think most of us don't even, may not even recognize to be discrimination.

The Equal Pay Act was the first of the great Civil Rights Acts. And we are way overdue in bringing it up to date and strengthening it as the DeLauro bill does.

This bill, too, was considered in the Republican House. We are considering it here in the Democratic House. I certainly hope that the urgency of this bill is apparent. I have no further speakers other than the gentleman from New Jersey…

For example, what about the many who work side by side such as the civil servants who guard our borders who are hardly different from the soldiers who do the same thing around the country? The 2.6 percent pay raise proposed here does not…

The notion that people who worked all their lives have to perhaps decide whether they are going to live on an ongoing--based on the drug that they have taken.

Not only would I support a censure vote, Democrats control the House, I think that a censure vote would easily pass the House of Representatives.

I was not surprised, because he's had a very long line of this kind of rhetoric and of close association, not only in this country, but in Europe, with white nationalists.

Have we forgotten that for a very long time now, Trump has seemed to be at one with the Russians. He's been accused of being too close to the Russians in the first place.

I thank my good friend especially for his work on this bill and for his friendship and for our continuing work together. Mr. Speaker, I have no further speakers, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I think she has been able to tell her story to professionals, that is to say, to a therapist.

You've got to have the FBI investigate these witnesses.

We don't need anybody making points back home, whether on the Democratic side or the Republican side if what we're trying to do is to find out what happened.

You don't throw people cold into a hearing. You don't have a swearing contest. You try to get at the truth.

If we could have an FBI investigation at the Anita Hill hearings, I don't know what's the difference here.

I believe that the time is really not the issue now. It's really the circumstances of the hearing, what's going on, what should go on.

I think they are going to try to go ahead without her. And if they do, they are making a serious mistake, because then everyone is going to say -- if it was a sham to have a hearing with no investigation, you can't have a hearing with no…

I think the country gets it, me too. I think this is the worst time with elections coming up to have this hearing and not have due process for a woman.

It's an unfair contest. All she's trying to do -- because in any case that's going to be very difficult for her is to get what we in the House of Representatives call regular order. Do what you do before you have a hearing. There is no…