Eleanor Holmes Norton

Today, a worker essentially in this country can, has to take what he can get and a huge income gap has opened up that is shameful.

The majority can entitle this hearing the right to choose and protecting union workers, but this majority will never be regarded as a champion, much less a protector, of workers in the long struggle for collective bargaining rights.

This hearing needs to be seen in its full context of what is happening in this country with respect to the right to organize.

I want the bill you and I agreed upon, Mr. Chairman, and that was the bill that had NEPA in it and that had homeless in it. And let me ask you, why did you come forward with an amendment that only has the homeless in it, that is the exact…

I ask the Chair: Is it true that there will be no more Members heard on this issue after 5:40?

Could I make an inquiry at this time? The Acting CHAIR. Does the gentleman have a futher inquiry?

Could I make a parliamentary inquiry? The Acting CHAIR. The Chair will first respond to the inquiry of the gentleman from Texas. The time of the gentleman may be extended in the Committee of the Whole only by unanimous consent.

Precisely because there have been two almost automatic freezes with no hearings, it is time to send this bill to the committee to determine what is fair for Federal employees. Have they contributed enough or, using my standard, leadership…

There has been no remedy to give the Justice Department the tools it needs to prosecute straw purchasers or gun trafficking.

I think the public would have expected that we would have begun to talk about remedy by this time;

Somebody's going to have to, 'call the Senate's bluff.'

The President's patience had been quite exhaustive.

So, in winding up the bill, I ask that we keep in mind the fact that a very fragile compromise has been reached to allow the three other airports in this region and the economic assumptions involved to divide up the air traffic as has been…

Nothing of the sort.

Resolved, that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that, one, the District of Columbia War Memorial should remain a memorial dedicated solely to the residents of the District of Columbia who served in World War I.

I would like to conclude with--Eleanor Holmes Norton, our delegate, has introduced a House resolution, 346.

Congresswoman Norton strongly opposes H.R. 938, because the bill would confiscate the District of Columbia War Memorial.

Congresswoman Norton strongly opposes H.R. 938 because the bill would confiscate the District of Columbia's war memorial.

I hope Mr. Cordray will give some priority to the service members who have been victims of the abuses by mortgage servicers.

I do not agree that people have the same ability as the market has to simply walk away, and that would be a very dangerous thing to do.

I wish that that were the case all the time. What we had here was a set of young people who, like the Arab spring, have found a new way to organize and I think will be giving you a lot of help in consumer protection.

The President confronted an attempt to nullify the possibility of recess appointments, which are perfectly constitutional.

I want to congratulate you on your appointment and thank you for your patience and for waiting out the process.

The First Amendment knows no advantage. The Tea Party people would get the same respect and I am confident the same kind of treatment from the Federal Government and the Park Service that they have gotten here.

Let me say this as somebody who represents this city, has deep respect for the First Amendment first and foremost.