Eleanor Holmes Norton

I oppose this program because it has failed to improve academic achievements, including the students who it was most designed to benefit.

And that is a new way to fund the highway trust fund. There is in the final bill some experimentation that I regard as urgent. I thank my good friends on both sides of the aisle for this short- term extension, which I hope will be the last…

The Federal vouchers give these schools the Federal Government's seal of approval. Considering that the purpose of the voucher program is to improve student achievement, voucher bills are inconsistent with the congressional intent and…

I actually agree with the chairman, and the chairman has consulted with us on these changes, which are technical in nature. I do not oppose this amendment. Indeed, I want to thank our chairman for working with us before this committee…

I just want to tell the gentleman that the so- called immigrants that he speaks to who send their children to schools in Maryland and Virginia live in Maryland and Virginia. Eighty percent of the jobs in the District of Columbia go to…

I want to remind the gentleman that the $100 million doesn't come out of the air, that this majority is cutting $2 billion from K-12. Most of our children are K-12. That money has to come from somewhere. We know it comes from education…

That, my friends, is what compromise looks like: first, phenomenal growth of public charter schools, which are supported by both Congressional Republicans and Democrats; second, allowing all current students to remain in private voucher…

I thank my good friend for yielding. A sure sign that the Republican Planned Parenthood hearing failed is that they are now embracing their default, the much-discredited Benghazi Select Committee strategy. But, the Government Reform…

I think it was Federal leadership, Mr. Korleski.

I want to thank you for the Medicaid funds you do receive.

That particularly, seems to me, might be the case here, where we are talking about managers.

Would you have your counsel look at the recently introduced Federal Intern Protection Act and indicate to this committee, to the chairman and the ranking member, whether you would support that act to prevent the harassment of interns in…

I hope that some of the Republicans on this committee who have expressed I think appropriate outrage at the harassment that went on here will join us as cosponsors to this bill.

I appreciate that. Mr. Speaker, the space in front of the White House is a First Amendment park. I was invited down to a commemoration by citizens, who come every Monday to urge the reform of our gun laws. To respond to fence jumping, some…

I certainly appreciate my good friend from Georgia for yielding to me to speak on this Secret Service reform bill and on the work of the chairman of the committee, Mr. Goodlatte from Virginia, on this bill. Our Oversight and Government…

Well, thank you very much. I'm sure the public would be very pleased to hear that, because with short-term borrowing going on, interest accruing, I'm not sure that was altogether clear.

I have to ask you why you are allowing--both you, Mr. Requa, and Mr. Anosike--why you are allowing short-term borrowing instead of going back and saying: Look, we've been on this for a year.

I believe you have complied in establishing the office and in meeting all the GAO's recommendations.

The only thing that the GAO found that WMATA had not done among its recommendations was it had not established the policy and related procedures for conducting periodic assessments of its financial management risks.

I'm not interested in punishing WMATA to the point that there is a Federal--that there is a fare hike.

If Congress cuts $50 million from its capital funding... then we can be assured that we are moving toward unsafety.

I do want to go on record as saying that in all those hearings and meetings there has been no evidence that Metro itself is unsafe.

This Congress must move beyond simply talking about needs and start coming up with solutions.

One of my top priorities in this reauthorization bill is boosting funding for the Federal Lands Transportation Program.

I believe there is an important shared community of interest between rural and urban America that I think many Members are unaware of.