Eleanor Holmes Norton

This is a First Amendment space.

I have been concerned, by the way, with the really quite shocking underfunding of the Secret Service.

I think we are very fortunate to have the Secret Service take the risks they take.

I consider this quite outrageous.

I congratulate the States who are doing their own experiments.

That is very good news, that this could happen within the year.

This is--this issue is more than 20 years old.

I think we need to push the States when we see these accidents continue to happen.

If people get fired for cost overruns, half the Defense Department would be gone.

$18 million that this majority certainly will not appropriate. Small business always have been a bipartisan concern. We have many more of them in our districts than we have large businesses. Small businesses are not who will come to…

I congratulate the sponsor and cosponsor once again on this vital and valuable bill. As we see the kinds of, really, unheard of events we are experiencing, it seems to us often that phones and cell phones are so 20th century. Twitter and…

Should we continue to wait and should we be content with an Office of Legal Counsel, or would it not be preferable for this Congress to clarify this issue once and for all?

I can understand an Office of Legal Counsel not wanting that weight on his shoulders, whoever he is...

I am particularly interested in law enforcement material... and I think this committee should not simply be exposing problems, but getting to remedies for these problems.

Yeah, what I would suggest if you follow the money, if the largest amount of money was given for competition...

Is the FEMA of the 21st century prepared for what we know now, from our own experience with Katrina and Sandy, is surely to come in parts of the country where we never expected?

I recall that in order to get funds for Sandy even after New York and New Jersey were laid low, it took two votes to get funding for you to begin to do your work after Sandy.

I recognize and appreciate that predisaster funding, we have over and again found by this subcommittee and committee, saves us enormously, $4 savings from $1 invested.

After the terrorist attack, it scared the dickens out of the country, and I must say that it scared us so badly that after the fact we actually threw money at every jurisdiction.

I want to contrast the difference between the way Congress behaved after the terrorist attack and the way it behaved after Katrina and Sandy.

We are asking a different question. Maybe 1 percent makes sense for a lot of things, but for critical infrastructure like hospitals, fire stations, maybe we should build to a higher standard.

All the scientists tell us that we are headed for major disasters. They tell us that there is no longer debate about whether there is climate change but only about how to manage climate change.

The monumental core is irreplaceable.

I am about to have a town meeting in the District of Columbia because of complaints about noise over residential neighborhoods.

Yesterday, in their first votes of the 114th Congress, the majority used their first vote to eliminate the vote in the Committee of the Whole of the residents of your Nation's Capital. That vote on some, but certainly not all, matters had…