Eleanor Holmes Norton

One of the most important reasons for passing the Affordable Health Care Act was to reduce the use of the emergency room.

But they get sick like everyone else.

I think it is important to clarify that, in other words, the waiver includes and assumes an amount in which you will have to be in compliance.

It takes money to save money.

It's vile enough to look a man in the face and accuse him of perjury without submitting any evidence.

You deserve one because of accusations designed to sacrifice the reputation of a public servant with a spotless reputation, for political advantage, without a scintilla--and I use my words advisedly--of evidence.

I have an amendment at the desk, Mr. Chairman. 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…

I would certainly agree when it comes to small business but I do not agree that the Postal Service shouldn't harm competitors in the same business or in a live business.

Apparently this product has been a great success with the business community.

I am interested in what keeps the Postal Service from developing new and innovative products as a matter of course.

The Post Office has had fair success collaborating with others.

I would much prefer, as the Chairman just indicated, innovation to be the role to the future of the Postal Service.

I submit that these agency committees of laypeople are who are really in charge of security in buildings, not the FPS and not the contract guards.

So would these providers be barred, period, permanently barred?

When--perhaps because Medicare is a necessarily costly program--and I say 'necessarily'--we do the best we can to provide the maximum care for the elderly when they are ill--there is particularly concern when there are reports--and they…

For example, for what kinds of abuses or fraud--or is it fraud?

Just to clarify, Mr. Chairman, on parkland and Federal property, nothing I said was meant, and I heard nothing that said that Federal law would be any different on Federal property.

I'm asking that the city, in any further action within this committee, not be unfairly targeted.

In a free society, of course, Mr. Chairman, we must respect the liberty of Americans to use such substances.

Who is paying that price, Mr. Chairman? It is the black community itself.

I think it's almost quaint to hear a jurisdiction of 650,000 American citizens referred to as a Federal District.

I think you are safe with that joint because the policy is not to enforce marijuana laws here in the District of Columbia.

Senator McCain, who I think should be quoted here, he was the Republican standard bearer in the last Presidential election.

Many Democrats, frankly, followed our Republican colleagues, who argued very forcefully for intervention in Libya.

I think that Senator McCain, with respect, was incorrect.