Eleanor Holmes Norton

Look, the fact is that the major complaints in the city about the cost of housing more than I've ever seen before.

You lose credibility when you come before Members of Congress who believe in the market economy, understand the market economy, have seen its effects on housing throughout the country.

And you believe that if heights are raised in these most desirable parts of the city, places where people are swarming to now, that affordable housing and office space will become more likely than now.

I wonder if we're promising too much about affordable housing.

I believe that elected officials have an obligation to avoid home rule division if at all possible.

One way or the other, the country is going to have to live within the market system.

There is no case to be made for affordable housing coming out of the status quo.

I also associate myself with your views about the undistinguished look of downtown Washington.

What I had to do, frankly, was to get a Federal agency to move there, and then another one, and then developers began to build there.

So it's your view that if you were to add--if there were to be taller buildings in the most desirable parts of the city, there would be no effect on spreading development to other parts of the city?

I want to get to the actual streets where you're talking about.

And yet there's a huge complaint in the city about affordable housing.

I also appreciate the chairman's energetic and innovative work for budget autonomy and his strong support on many occasions for home rule, which he has raised as a factor in connection with the Height Act.

In more than 20 years of service, neither business interests nor D.C. residents have approached me regarding changing the Height Act, but I supported Chairman Issa's call for a hearing on whether a 100-year-old law continues to serve the…

Excessive secrecy undermines our democracy and threatens our national security by making it harder for us to protect our legitimate secrets.

It is time for Congress to be far less deferential to the executive branch on claims of national security.

Build the car, and then we will learn what we have to do to regulate it.

I certainly want to thank you for calling this hearing on autonomous vehicles.

You do need a panel. You need somebody to look closely at it, taking into account all of the concerns.

The community was so concerned that since this place was surrounded by development that they themselves came up with a plan to develop it.

It was a very proud moment, named for the only Medal of Honor winner of the Coast Guard.

I have a special interest in 49 L Street because it is part of the Southeast Federal Center or Yards District.

I must tell you that OMB has been a roadblock to this committee and to development.

I need to know whether you believe that the Ecodistrict can be developed without Federal funds through the use of 412 authority.

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