Eleanor Holmes Norton

The manifestations may be different, but leave aside the discussion on climate change because we do not know why this is happening

In my experience, you never get legislation passed in the Congress by showing dollars and cents saved.

Does that tell me that you need a disaster in order to get a building code? Would that not be terrible?

If I am not mistaken, only about a third, and correct me if I am wrong, of States seem to have building codes.

I had not thought about that as a responsibility that the States already have.

The communities across the region are up in arms about outages.

I liked the way your bill was framed. That is why I was a co-sponsor, because it does seem to me that particularly in light of federalism, if the Federal Government wants you to do something, you offer incentives.

Mitigation does far more than save money. It reduces injuries and saves lives.

I want to thank Representative Diaz-Balart for his work on this issue.

Thank you very much, Senator Akaka.

You have always been indispensable to the city and you have certainly shown that this year.

My request to testify was summarily refused on a bill to be marked up tomorrow to deny only women in my district, the District of Columbia, the right to an abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy as guaranteed by Roe v. Wade. So I testify for…

The House just won't let up on American women. Tomorrow features a committee markup to deprive women of their constitutional right to an abortion. The bill picks on D.C. women because Republicans don't have the nerve to introduce this…

I was astounded by the number, almost 60 million Americans, nonelderly now, have what are called preexisting conditions.

I just hope in the process the State will consult with the hospitals because they may be one of the victims in all of the play back and forth.

The cost of health care will go up.

The last leg of today's weak reed of contempt is the claim that the President asserted executive privilege too late. Why not from the beginning? The President, like every President before him, did not assert the privilege until…

I think one of the things the committee needs to inquire, OMB in both Republican and Democratic administrations... it is my belief that somehow there is an endemic problem in OMB across administrations.

There is always political feedback from Members of the House and Senate if you try to sell a property in their district of State.

Part of the administration's efforts to dispose of and redevelop underutilized Federal properties, that effort led to the administration's submission of the Civilian Property Realignment Commission proposal to Congress still pending here…

The District of Columbia is not a colony, it is part of the United States, and its people are entitled to be treated with the same respect that we demand for the people we represent.

I have no further speakers and I again urge passage of S. 1302 and yield back the balance of my time.

I appreciate the bipartisanship of this bill. To my good friend, the minority whip from Maryland, I can only say that the championship that your own district brought back is enough to make us think that our area teams might one day have a…

I am pleased to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer).

In other words, you thought that the----