Eleanor Holmes Norton

I certainly want to go on record to thank the Occupy movement for being responsive to the police...

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

Isn't it the case that there have not been escalating tactics? Shouldn't we give these demonstrators their due that there has been cooperation with the police and instead of escalating tactics, they have self-policed their movement?

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

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

We want more of that because we do not want the city torn up by demonstrators.

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.

If I asked the average American, what should be the first vote in the House? For sure, she would say extend payroll tax, unemployment insurance, and the doc fix. What is our first bill? Disapproval of raising the debt ceiling. For what? To…

I come to make a few remarks about the 2012 omnibus appropriations conference report just passed and about one part of that report that has no place in any conference report or in any House appropriations bill. I refer, of course, to the…

Well, I thank you, Mr. Hoyer. It was a very special pleasure to yield to the man who is second in the Democratic leadership here in the House. And I think that it was particularly appropriate, as we close out this session, for our…

So as the residents of the District of Columbia look at the national appropriations, they will see the national conference report and they will have much to be grateful for because the wholesale attack on everything from education to…

There is an answer to this, and I thank Mr. Issa for proposing a budget autonomy bill himself that mirrors my own budget autonomy bill--with some differences to be sure, in deference to the Congress. But this is a chairman of a committee…

Well, I can't thank the gentleman enough for coming to the floor, first of all, in solidarity with the residents of the District of Columbia to read the statement in solidarity with the hunger strikers themselves. It's very important to…

Do you understand that going off on abortion hides what we know every single person who has been involved in the life of trafficking will need, and that is some way to protect him or herself?

Even if you are trafficking and you don't want an abortion, you don't believe in abortion, after the Bishops got the contract, you could not be referred even for contraception.

If I go to a doctor and he says I am real good at doing X, but you need X and Y, he is not good for me.

Now, this was, of course, the first test ever done. But you can't know if there are problems if you don't do a test.

I want to thank the chairman of the full committee, Mr. Issa and my good friend on the other side who is managing the bill for the committee, the chair of the subcommittee, Mr. Gowdy, for working closely with us on this bill so that we…

I appreciate Speaker Boehner, Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chair Lieberman, and Oversight and Government Reform Chair Issa, as well as my good colleague on the other side of the aisle, the subcommittee…

This is a rare, if not unprecedented, hearing. And I just want to say for the record, this is a hearing about public money.

I want to commend Representative Wasserman Schultz and the 367 bipartisan cosponsors of House Resolution 364. I recognize, Madam Speaker, that this is an unprecedented bill, but the bill commemorates an unprecedented act, the sacrifice of…

I can't see that the internal policies were violated.

So there is only one issue here. And that issue, it seems to me, is whether HHS followed or failed to follow the objective procedures for awarding a grant to victims, whoever is the organization.

I can't find it, but I want to cross-examine you on that view.

The only thing I find in the act is the prohibition on organizations that support the legalization of prostitution, and no one has raised that as an issue here.