Eleanor Holmes Norton

I thought the President had begun in a bipartisan way himself when early on he said he thought that we should--and here I'm quoting him, show great compassion about the opioid epidemic.

I worry that making a substance widely available and legal increases acceptance of it and increases use among youth.

If, in fact, you're going to possess--if a jurisdiction is going to possess marijuana, should it not at least have the opportunity to keep marijuana out of the hands of children?

I hope we can have more hearings on safety.

Safety is becoming a critical concern in transportation.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I am interested in protecting the interests of the United States in what appears to be the profitability of the Trump Hotel.

I believe this is the first opportunity that the committee has had to do any oversight of the GSA.

Those who wrote this bill already seem to know that its constitutionality is in doubt.

The taxpayers may indeed need compensation, as they have gotten in every other country that has privatized.

Why shouldn't the Government of the United States be similarly compensated for these taxpayer assets?

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has filed a suit against your largest services, Navient...

I am interested in accountability here.

I certainly hope the appropriators do the right thing, though.

You don't even exist if we are not providing the kind of service to students that they deserve.

I have never heard of anything so bureaucratic in my life.

I have been able to have the FAA come to see me.

Some of the most political figures we know are ministers and rabbis, and they don't feel that they can't speak out.

There's been great wisdom on the part of the Framers and the Johnson Amendment in protecting our houses of worship, our political institutions, from the corrosive effects of political money.

I can't imagine why we now want to take the only part of American life that is not polarized and put it right into the thick of the ugliest part of our life.

So, over time, we do have such hearings as this, and people come up with notions--well, we have to have a passenger bill of rights.

I can't imagine why we haven't had a hearing like this, based on what my colleagues have to go through.

Are each of the airlines here willing to boil down what the customer is entitled to to a one-pager?

But, essentially, you represent four regional monopolies.

I don't care where people are on climate change. The science is pretty clear on that.