Eleanor Holmes Norton

I have to tell all of you sitting at the table: I was a tenured professor of law before I came to Congress.

So could they work together to stop the kind of tax evasion we've been talking about, the common reporting standard and FATCA, Ms. Bean?

I'm going to ask you to think about that, because this is the kind of modification that is going to take bipartisan support.

I have to ask you, when you say you would like repeal, do you really mean you want no law on the books that went after the bad guys so that we could make sure that the good guys weren't, in fact, caught?

Let me thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this really interesting and important and revealing hearing.

The section of the Constitution, article 1, section 8, speaks to the Federal Government's responsibility toward post offices and roads.

I must say, I am very grateful, Mr. Chairman, that it was a good bipartisan effort.

I am very grateful for this subcommittee hearing. I think it indicates that our subcommittee wants to get beyond all of the interest that we have heard on infrastructure, and see what we can really do.

I thank my good friend for helping us document why we believe this is not the time for this Justice to be on the Supreme Court. We recognize that it is not the House of Representatives that decides this matter, but the Congressional Black…

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Payne) for those cogent remarks. I yield to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

So that would let us know how much money we need in the large?

I really do need an explanation for that, and I don't require it today, but I needed to bring it to your attention.

You don't think it's sustainable to go back, for example, to the local jurisdictions and say give us a model that would be essentially a tax dedicated to WMATA?

The only business or enterprise I know that closes down when WMATA closes down is the Government of the United States located here in this region.

I do appreciate your work and the work of my good friend, Mr. Connolly.

Well, if we look at the budget of the administration, far from looking for inefficiency and waste there, what we see is an unheard of increase, a $50 billion increase, in that budget, taken of course out of the flesh of the rest of the…

I wanted to correct the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Sanford), who opined that this bill was not scored correctly. We are talking about space already designated for Federal employees. The intent of the bill, and I am the author of…

Airplane noise has become a national issue. And it is a bipartisan issue here in the Congress.

I am a new cochair of something called the Quiet Skies Caucus.

It is very important to hear, because then we will be able to blame just NextGen or flight patterns, rather than the noise from the airplanes themselves.

This is New York you are talking about. If they know the airplane is there, they will complain about the noise.

The noise has become such a pervasive issue that some of us in the Congress have formed a bipartisan coalition called Quiet Skies.

The age of the workforce is younger?

I thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this early hearing on the Postal Service.

I think the committee ought to ask, lest we find that this--rebellion from the Federal workforce because this is an unexplained difference between the overall Federal workforce and the postal workforce if we could inquire and perhaps ask…