Eleanor Holmes Norton

The CBO has also estimated but used the OPM, the Office of Personnel Management, but it is estimated that using postal-specific demographic data to calculate contributions owed by the Postal Service would result in a huge amount, $6…

It broke my heart that, in order to get even a small bump... we had to reduce the bill from a 6-year bill to a 5-year bill.

I applaud what this committee has done, very bipartisan committee.

These orders appear to clearly violate the whistleblower laws.

I note that there have been disturbing signs of the Trump administration trying to silence dissent among employees of the Federal Government.

100,000 D.C. residents would lose their insurance if the Affordable Healthcare Act were repealed, and the estimated cost to D.C. would be $1.1 billion.

This bill, of course, is annual, and it is less inclined to become law than to be part of the annual upcoming march. We do not intend, Madam Speaker, to let our colleagues get away with not supporting democracy, including the right of…

You can't kill some things. They just refuse to die.

This is an important hearing because, of course, abuse of time and attendance is always unacceptable, whatever the amount.

I was amazed in the wake of the recent report not to impeach Mr. Koskinen, that that issue would be raised in an effort to relitigate it at this hearing.

This is a huge error.

Well, the new technology may have gotten in the way here of getting an accurate count of people, particularly undocumented people or people who are leery of responding to people who open the door, I mean.

I would like to have some explanation of these results.

This is always an important hearing. It's important. It's timely. I would say it's timely. I hope it's in time.

Well, let's hope you take into account the recent litigation. You cannot have censuses where some States have corrected this, other States haven't, and then go to the American people and say we have an accurate census.

I would hazard a guess that most Americans are not home in the middle of the day if they are fortunate enough to have a job or if they have children and they are in school.

But I want to ask questions about this what I am calling the enigma of the minorities, which always vex the census.

Well, my God, we have been doing this--we have had, you know, we either have had two-parent families where both go out to work or single-parent families where we hope somebody is working for a very long time, and the notion that we don't…

I do have to ask about what I believe is really a constitutional question, and that is prison gerrymandering, a huge distortion of the count...

Surely they can't go uncounted.

The committee found--and here I am quoting--``a staffing crisis that poses perhaps the greatest threat to the agency.''

I have never seen Americans reply or respond to an election by going in huge numbers to the streets simply to protest the new President even before he has done anything.

I endorse the words of the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky), and I urge the passage of H.R. 5798, a bill to honor the legacy of Abner Mikva and to commemorate his exemplary life of public service across all branches of our…

It gives me great pleasure to support H.R. 5798, a bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1101 Davis Street in Evanston, Illinois, as the Abner J. Mikva Post Office Building. I yield such time as she…

We should pass this bill in memory of Segundo Sablan, his heroic actions during World War II, and his dedicated career in the United States Postal Service. I urge the passage of H.R. 5889. I yield back the balance of my time.