Eleanor Holmes Norton

I appreciate the gentleman yielding. The majority will allow a vote of every other Member on what affects only my district. No wonder the D.C. mayor, the council and residents have taken to civil disobedience.

How much more contempt can you show for the citizens who live in the Nation's Capital? If the Republicans are going to require Members to cite the Constitution in introducing legislation, I ask them to stop tearing up the Constitution and…

I respect my good friend, but I have got to stand for and with the people I represent. And if the gentleman wants to put the joy in the hearts of my parents, I challenge him to put joy in the hearts of the parents of his beloved Indiana…

The speaker before the last speaker wanted to know what the offense was. The offense is to the home-rule prerogative to the people of the District of Columbia to decide on educational choices for their own children. That's what the offense…

To the gentleman who didn't have the nerve to yield to me, this bill, of course---- Point of Order

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cummings), the ranking member of the committee.

The majority has been obsessed with depriving the District of Columbia of its home-rule rights ever since this Congress opened. They have come now with their choice, their preference, for the people I represent. If, in fact, the majority…

To introduce P.L. 104-134, which has helped us produce a large-scale robust alternative public school system that is now a model for the Nation. The pattern of this Congress could not be clearer. They began by stripping the District of…

No one ever said that everybody in the District of Columbia or even every public official was against vouchers.

So in the first test of their legislative cut-go protocol, they will be voting to violate it. They will be voting to do so with $300 million added to the deficit at a time when they are cutting $11.6 billion with a ``b'' from education…

The Federal workforce, now with many baby boomers, is eligible to retire, and there is absolute panic about whether or not we will ever see a workforce as good as the workforce we got in the post-Kennedy period. These were people who came…

Far from scapegoating, it seems to me we ought to stand up and salute Federal employees for what they're doing for this country now.

If the gentlewoman would yield, I think it's very interesting that we have on the floor Members from, perhaps, the most dense part of the Federal workforce, all the way to Hawaii. Eighty-five percent of Federal workers does not work in the…

I thank the gentlelady, and I hope she will remain with us, because the gentlelady is pointing out distinctions that the public is largely unaware of. Some of these job categories that my friend from Maryland points to ought to be…

The last I read, OMB cannot override a statutory mandate of the United States Congress.

I suspect you're--frustrated would be probably an understatement--about the Old Post Office RFP.

I look forward to learning more about the Presidential libraries.

I am grateful. The majority has taken regulation, a subject on which there is a basis for areas of consensus, and has polarized it. They have broken their promises on jobs--look, no jobs bill--and on reducing Federal power by trying to…

Generally, of course, when GSA puts out an RFP, one of the criteria is proximity to mass transportation.

Last thing we want is more delay on this project.

And I am pleased to sit with you, Mr. Chairman, and with our friends on the Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee again to examine the process for replacing the Social Security Administration's current data center.

I think that the blame has to be taken where it is in the Administration, and that's who we're going to hold responsible.

The next time you want to make a point like this, I would suggest that you station Mr. Peck here.

I am pleased to be serving with our new subcommittee chair, Representative Jeffrey Denham.

I would like to apologize to the witnesses and to others who have come to this important hearing, and I just want to say for the record that I object to it being held in this annex.