Eleanor Holmes Norton

We already have a bipartisan majority on this committee about what needs to be done.

Let's get some money on the table.

It is not yet clear on where the Trump administration stands, or if it is really serious about real investments in infrastructure.

The backlog and the lengthy wait time for security clearances is unacceptable.

I remind the House that the House keeps the District of Columbia from spending its own funds for low-income women who want to end a pregnancy at even 1 week. But today I rise for Christy Zink, a District of Columbia resident who was a…

Isn't it interesting that, by coincidence, of course, it comes at a time when there's an outcry in the country about fake news and alternative facts.

I want to thank you and the ranking member for this hearing.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 513, strike line 1 and all that follows through page 514, line 11. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Alabama will be postponed. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 193 printed in House…

I don't know what the District of Columbia can do to satisfy the ideologically driven Members on the other side. We protected religious liberty. There have been absolutely no challenges. Republicans persist in ignoring the plain wording on…

May I inquire how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman has 2 minutes remaining.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from the District of Columbia will be postponed. Amendment No. 118 Offered by Mr. Latta The…

My friend suggests that the BOP actually collects this $20 million. I would submit to him and challenge him to show me that the burden of trying to collect these fees does not outweigh any actual reimbursement. These people have no jobs…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of division C (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. ____. None of the funds made…

I haven't seen a crisis like this, and I have seen some terrible drug crises in my time in Congress.

I mean, I saw the heroin epidemic, I saw the crack cocaine, and this notion of doubling deaths in a single year could not be more disturbing.

I am interested in the most effective way of capturing illegal substances.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank you for this timely hearing.

It is technically impossible to write an anti-speech code that cannot be twisted against speech nobody means to bar. It has been tried and tried and tried.

I simply say as a black woman and ask them to remember that Frederick Douglass... was able in even that society to denounce slavery all over the United States.

It pains me, I have to say, when I hear of African-American students in particular claiming about hurt feelings when it comes to speech.

I am pleased that the entire panel appears to believe that exposure to speech that hurts is part and parcel of living in a democratic free-speech society.

If you're concerned about young people, would you be concerned that the District of Columbia can't regulate marijuana so as to keep it out of the hands of people under 18, for example?

So what we've done in the District of Columbia is we have expanded the underground market for marijuana.

Yet Congress has prohibited the District of Columbia from using its local funds to tax and regulate marijuana.