Eleanor Holmes Norton

I am also troubled by how the committee often pulls the White House into these matters without any evidence.

I do believe oversight is appropriate in light of the round of surprises we have had.

It is difficult to understand how somebody who has your, the agency's mandate now, with this extra backlog, in addition to whatever backlog you may have had, it is going to be very difficult to do what is the central function of the agency…

Fixing a little by little is not going to resolve this problem for veterans.

I could not identify more with our witnesses on the effect of the shutdown on your local economies.

Put the country first and end this shutdown.

I also can't bear the way in which our veterans have been made poster children by my Republican friends.

Indeed the District of Columbia is a double-whammy victim of this shutdown.

I have great fears that we will lose people like you as civil servants are going through the issues that now confront all of you.

This bill came forward in the last Congress. It is a bill of some specific urgency as we have seen more events evolve beyond the original 9/11 events where communication is everything.

After 41 votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Republicans want the administration to believe that they now want only a delay. Why don't they state that forthrightly? Why don't they say they are now for the Affordable Care Act, but…

I'm pleased to yield an additional 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Colorado. Ms. DeGETTE. If we remove the cap on the Federal Highway Administration Emergency Relief funds, Colorado can get the assistance and relief we need to rebuild…

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Perlmutter).

I simply want to ask about the value or lack thereof of the community survey.

I think everybody ought to put all the cards on the table, and that's the big elephant in this hearing room today.

Of course the Park Police has been among the most unappreciated and least well staffed police forces, Federal police forces.

I am saying it sounds to me as though no one ever invented one.

If the Park Police don't keep control of guns then, of course, in no small measure this city may be the first to feel the effects of it.

I certainly hope that because you have heard so much at this hearing from Congress and that can always be intimidating, you will bear in mind that the public wants our monuments to be safe.

I was pleased that apparently no weapons were stolen, weapons were not found to be taken home for personal use.

I will be interested to know whether you are able to keep a force in place during this time.

When we have had furloughs in the Federal Government, we have always exempted law enforcement officers.

I want to thank the Park Police for what looks to be a quick capture of the person who may have been, is alleged to have been defacing monuments.

The opportunity for spending unlimited amounts of money opened the door for people who had that money to spend

I don't believe you are dishonest and I don't believe that you are political.