Eleanor Holmes Norton

I want to thank the chairman for the bipartisan measures this bill contains, measures like the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System and a number of others. I rise in support of H.R. 2903. This bipartisan measure reauthorizes the…

This Committee and, I believe, the Senate will have an opportunity to confirm an unusually outstanding candidate for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

We have never had a vision for train travel for the decades.

The fact that your trains are more and more crowded speaks to the service your employees are providing, and it speaks to the need for more and more trains.

It is a source of great embarrassment to me as an American that our country is not just a little behind, not just somewhat behind, but not even out of the starting gate when it comes to train travel in the world today.

Almost all abortions in the District of Columbia are performed between six and 10 weeks. Mr. Speaker, I was denied my request, my request was denied even to testify on this bill, even though this bill affects only residents of my city. I…

Sometimes schoolyard bullies pick on the wrong kid. Anti-choice forces thought they had found a cheap way to make a large point against the right of women in our country to reproductive health and choice by picking on the District of…

I thank the chairman and the chairman of the subcommittee for the hearings that they held that exposed this bill for what it does to reproductive choice in our country unconstitutionally on two scores, because it targets also the District…

I thank you, Mr. Chairman, for convening today's hearing on EPA's recently released integrated planning framework to work with the States toward providing reasonable flexibility and relief to jurisdictions like my own district, the…

I found your summary and your vivid explanation important, and you come, of course, from the District of Columbia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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…

Republican attacks on lifesaving access to contraceptives in the health care act is one in a series on women's reproductive health this term. The worst is yet to come in the planned markup of H.R. 3803, to ban abortions after 20 weeks…

Well, I want to thank you, Representative Tonko, and my other good colleague, Representative Garamendi, for leading this special order and for offering the perspective that you've begun this hour with, something that our fathers and…

American women have been outraged by Republican attacks on reproductive health this term. We saw it in the decision that was later reversed by the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure when it initially pulled funding for Planned Parenthood for…