Eleanor Holmes Norton

I protest, Mr. Speaker. I protest continuing to demand full citizenship costs from the residents of our Nation's Capital while denying them the vote granted to all other Americans that come with those costs. I thank my friend for yielding…

There's concern in the District of Columbia because the D.C. Council passed a law, it allows driver's licenses.

There are 15 States plus the District of Columbia that have filed briefs in this case that say that there would be improvement in their own economies.

And if they wanted to refuse them, they could?

You do have access, though, to these databases?

Should somebody be regulating that sector? And who should be?

I must say, we're in the infancy of everything here, the infancy of regulation, the infancy of the technology.

I do not want us to be repeating that we would hope it will be fixed and there is someone with more gray hair chairing this Committee 15 years from now and we have not fixed the problem because it has real impact.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

I would like to be heard. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from the District of Columbia is recognized.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 74, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $512,000,000)''. Page 75, line 6, after the dollar amount…

I always thought that I was a First Amendment lawyer in a prior life and that the press should not be seen as the enemy.

The majority has found a new way to keep from funding a long-term surface transportation bill within 6 days: keep passing short-term patches. As a result, we are starving the Nation's infrastructure. Twenty-three States are so desperate…

You said that--and I am quoting from you, and I am interested in this, because the ostensible reason for the program was to help the lowest-achieving students in the worst schools in the District of Columbia.

I would have been very gratified if, as reported, parents were--saw improvement in the safety of students.

We worked collaboratively with then-Speaker Newt Gingrich to create the robust charter school system we have today.

I challenge the D.C. voucher schools to demonstrate comparable improvement.

I have always supported, and strongly so, public charter school alternatives for those parents who are dissatisfied with the D.C. public schools.

The Republican House is again seeking to impose its will on the District without the consent of D.C.'s locally-elected government.

I support allowing the current District of Columbia voucher students to remain in the program until they graduate.

So that we can get high-speed rail. So you can't get high-speed rail unless you dig down. You can't do that unless people can get over this bridge. You talked about billions of dollars of highway bridge and transit that is being held up. I…

Oh, you would be the very first one given what you have done on this floor, and I am glad you mentioned some parts of the bill and its cost. Yes. Guess what? It costs money; it costs something to do transportation and infrastructure; but…

The administration does want it introduced. Mr. Garamendi, we need it, if for nothing else but as a marker. What are we talking about? If nothing has been introduced, I am not sure the American people will recognize just how far we have to…

And that would give us a long-term bill. The administration admits that it, too, is not the answer because, after that, we still have to come up with a new way to pay for transportation and infrastructure. You, yourself, talked about when…