Eleanor Holmes Norton

I think that was fair.

It was for me to learn that we would be losing Jerry Costello, for many, many reasons.

I will work with you and other Members of this body to exercise, to carve out and get rid of all those individuals and those opportunities.

A meaner Medicaid is not a sufficient solution.

I don't ever want to throw out the baby with the bath water.

Mr. Contreras is another of these remarkable American success stories of first-generation Americans who become Federal judges.

I believe his confirmation will be assured should this Committee determine to approve him.

First, Senator Durbin, I want to thank you once again for the invaluable assistance you have been to the District of Columbia over the years.

I am pleased that his family is here: his mother, Amparo Contreras; his wife, Karen McSweeney; his two children, Brian Contreras and Claire Contreras.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 14, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(decreased by $300,000)(increased by $300,000)''. The Acting CHAIR. The…

You are not at liberty to tell the people of the District of Columbia who have to live with the carnage how to approach it.

I stand by the notion that the reason that the ATF agents don't have the laws they need is because the Republicans have over and over again introduced laws that would, in fact, keep them from getting those laws and have stood in the way of…

The District of Columbia barred guns in light of carnage over the decades. Those laws had been found to be constitutional.

What could you do to me?

If I had a dollar for every mistake this Congress has made when it came to guns, I would be a very rich woman.

To sit in a hearing and hear people beat up on the ATF is very, very interesting to me.

The Financial Services appropriation soon due on the floor will be contentious; but one section should be a piece of cake because it only requires Members to vote on the local budget of a city, the District of Columbia, already voted on…

Well, Professor Warren, this is just the kind of thing we had hoped you would be doing.

But as we know, the trustees--I'm sorry. Yes, the trustees have to let us know when the general funds are being tapped to pay for Part D.

So isn't it the case that the Affordable Care Act, by correcting this overpayment, in fact, saved Medicare funds for the first time that anyone has been able to do so in any large amount of funds?

Could I ask you now, in the Affordable Care Act we closed the doughnut hole over time. Now, how do we pay for that?

I have an amendment at the desk. 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. __. The amount otherwise made available by this…

Metro bus and rail service plays an indispensable role in the day-to-day operations of the Federal Government.

Anytime, Mr. Chairman.

I regret that that has to be done, but you can't ask somebody to drive a bus if you are going to be assaulted, and you don't know who is going to get on your bus and do so.