Eleanor Holmes Norton

It does seem to me to be a violation of the ability to bargain at all.

If we're going to have these, have the best workforce in the country because of the nature of the work, Federal work, are we recruiting people at the same level that the private sector is

You mean you met with the union and you all didn't even discuss this?

I'm trying to understand what it will take to make sure that your management improvements take hold.

I do need to know whether anyone can act; and I ask the committee to find out, if there is no general counsel who processes these charges, whether or not there is the possibility, perhaps even the committee can tell us whether it could be…

I was impressed with your testimony. I, in a prior life, ran a Federal agency, and at the time, the important issue was efficiency, so I endorse your ideas to make the agencies more efficient.

The limit on slots to Reagan helps relieve enormous congestion there and ensures safety of one of the Nation's most crowded and critical airfields.

We have some of these outstanding since 2011. What can you do to--since you still stand behind the efficiency of these transfers, what can be done to speed these transfers?

Do you regard their pushback for the reasons you named as worthy of your consideration?

However, in order to truly address these recommendations, we not only need a sustained commitment by the agencies involved, we also need sustained oversight from our own committee.

One constant we have noticed over these years is that the executive branch can certainly do better.

This notion of draining the swamp seems to be turned on its head, because we have had more--a virtual explosion of scandals and ethical lapses during this administration, young as it is.

Today, marking the signing of President Lincoln's proclamation freeing slaves in the Nation's Capital, is a local holiday in the District of Columbia. Many D.C. residents worked anyway. Activist groups in the District of Columbia…

This is very important, Mr. Chairman, as I yield back my time. We have learned at this hearing that this tax law line, which was discontinued in 2014, will be renewed, and I must thank the IRS for that in light of the new tax law.

This tax cut is not yet popular with the American people, but they will be looking for service from the IRS.

Mr. Chairman, that was really my basic point, to try to clarify what we are talking about here.

So, that is an error, not fraud.

I would welcome a waiver for people who are not working in the District of Columbia on Medicaid.

And, of course, the State may at a later date correct the mistake.

Early in the Trump administration, there emerged a rule that--so-called two-to-one rule--we'll repeal two regulations for every new regulation.

It is going to make it very difficult, if not impossible, I believe, for agencies to issue the most important beneficial regulations to the public.

I want to thank you, Chairman Graves, for this hearing.

The President's infrastructure plan looks like it discriminates against most of the country, 52 percent of the country, which provides most of the GDP

I very much appreciate this hearing, because there has been so much talk about the President's infrastructure plan.

I have to ask you Madam Secretary, what is keeping you from getting this money out of the door?